Polyglutamine repeats are associated to specific sequence biases that are conserved among eukaryotes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Ramazzotti, Matteo ^a   Monsellier, Elodie ^b   Kamoun, Choumouss ^b   Degl'Innocenti, Donatella ^a   Melki, Ronald ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b LABORATOIRE D ENZYMOLOGIE ET BIOCHIMIE STRUCTURALES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; LEUCINE; POLYGLUTAMINE; PROLINE; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CAG REPEAT; CODON; DNA REPLICATION; EUKARYOTE; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC SELECTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SPECIES CONSERVATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARCHAEAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GENOME; DISEASES; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEOMICS;

EUKARYOTA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CODON; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DISEASE; EUKARYOTA; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, ARCHAEAL; GENOME, BACTERIAL; HUMANS; PEPTIDES; PROTEOMICS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SELECTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84856421338     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0030824     Document Type: Article

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