Discovery, Identification and Comparative Analysis of Non-Specific Lipid Transfer Protein (nsLtp) Family in Solanaceae

Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 229-237

  Liu, Wanfei ^a,b   Huang, Dawei ^a,b   Liu, Kan ^a,b   Hu, Songnian ^a   Yu, Jun ^a   Gao, Gang ^c   Song, Shuhui ^a  

^a Chinese Academy of Sciences and China National Center for Bioinformation   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c SHANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

NsLtp family; Phylogenetic analysis; Solanaceae; Three dimensional structure

Indexed keywords

LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN; NON SPECIFIC LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 10; NON SPECIFIC LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 1A; NON SPECIFIC LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 1B; NON SPECIFIC LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 1C; NON SPECIFIC LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 1D; NON SPECIFIC LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 2; NON SPECIFIC LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 4; NON SPECIFIC LIPID TRANSFER PROTEIN 9; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANGIOSPERM; ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; PHYLOGENY; PLANT GENE; POACEAE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ARABIDOPSIS; CARRIER PROTEINS; DATA MINING; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAGS; GENES, PLANT; GENETIC VARIATION; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PLANT PROTEINS; POACEAE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOLANACEAE;

ARABIDOPSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); POACEAE; SOLANACEAE;

EID: 79952309307     PISSN: 16720229     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1672-0229(10)60024-1     Document Type: Article

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