FurinDB: A Database of 20-residue furin cleavage site motifs, substrates and their associated drugs

International Journal of Molecular Sciences

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 1060-1065

  Tian, Sun ^a,b   Huang, Qingsheng ^a,c   Fang, Ying ^a   Wu, Jianhua ^a  

^a SOUTH CHINA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b Nuolan Net   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Furin; Furin cleavage site; Molecular database

Indexed keywords

FURIN; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; VIRUS PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CELL FUNCTION; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; FURINDB DATABASE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR COMPUTER; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN MOTIF; SPECIES; ANIMAL; BINDING SITE; CHEMICAL DATABASE; ENZYME SPECIFICITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN DEGRADATION;

MAMMALIA;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; BINDING SITES; DATABASES, CHEMICAL; DATABASES, PROTEIN; FURIN; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEOLYSIS; SUBSTRATE SPECIFICITY; VIRAL PROTEINS;

EID: 79952257801     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14220067     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijms12021060     Document Type: Article

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