De novo structural modeling and computational sequence analysis of a bacteriocin protein isolated from Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae strain LC-31

African Journal of Biotechnology

Volumn 10, Issue 38, 2011, Pages 7381-7388

  Butt, Azeem Mehmood ^a   Khan, Ishaque Badshah ^b   Haq, Farhan ^c   Tong, Yigang ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE PUNJAB   (Pakistan)

^b ÖREBRO UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c QUAID I AZAM UNIVERSITY   (Pakistan)

^d BEIJING INSTITUTE OF MICROBIOLOGY AND EPIDEMIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Bacteriocin; Nitrogen fixation; Nodulation; Protein modelling; Rhizobium; Symbiosis

Indexed keywords

BACTERIOCIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL STRAIN; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; COMPUTER MODEL; MACHINE LEARNING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURAL BIOINFORMATICS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS); NEGIBACTERIA; RHIZOBIUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM; RHIZOBIUM LEGUMINOSARUM BV. VICIAE;

EID: 79960852235     PISSN: 16845315     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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