PolyQ: A database describing the sequence and domain context of polyglutamine repeats in proteins

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 39, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Robertson, Amy L ^a   Bate, Mark A ^a   Androulakis, Steve G ^b   Bottomley, Stephen P ^a   Buckle, Ashley M ^a  

^a Department of Physiology School of Biomedical Sciences   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION SERVICE; POLYQ DATABASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

DATABASES, PROTEIN; DISEASE; HUMANS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 78651322494     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkq1100     Document Type: Article

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