Frequencies of specific peptides in intrinsic disordered protein domains

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1398-1402

  Costantini, Susan ^a,b   Costantini, Maria ^c   Colonna, Giovanni ^b  

^a Centro Ricerche Oncologiche di Mercogliano Fiorentino Lo Vuolo   (Italy)

^b SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^c STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Binary classification method; Disorder prediction; Disordered proteins; Peptides occurrence frequency; Protein folding; Protein unfolding

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650671822     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/0929866511009011398     Document Type: Article

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