The interface of protein structure, protein biophysics, and molecular evolution

Protein Science

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 769-785

  Liberles, David A ^a   Teichmann, Sarah A ^b   Bahar, Ivet ^c   Bastolla, Ugo ^d   Bloom, Jesse ^e   Bornberg Bauer, Erich ^f   Colwell, Lucy J ^b   De Koning, A P Jason ^g   Dokholyan, Nikolay V ^h   Echave, Julian ⁱ   Elofsson, Arne ^j   Gerloff, Dietlind L ^k   Goldstein, Richard A ^l   Grahnen, Johan A ^a   Holder, Mark T ^m   Lakner, Clemens ⁿ   Lartillot, Nicholas ^o   Lovell, Simon C ^p   Naylor, Gavin ^q   Perica, Tina ^b   Pollock, David D ^g   Pupko, Tal ^r   Regan, Lynne ^s   Roger, Andrew ^t   Rubinstein, Nimrod ^r   Shakhnovich, Eugene ^u   Sjølander, Kimmen ^v   Sunyaev, Shamil ^w   Teufel, Ashley I ^a   Thorne, Jeffrey L ⁿ   Thornton, Joseph W ^x,y   Weinreich, Daniel M ^z   Whelan, Simon ^p   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^b MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^g UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

^j STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^k University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^l NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

ⁿ NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^p UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^q School of Business   (United States)

^r TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^s YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^t DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^u HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v University of California at Berkeley   (United States)

^w BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^y UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^z BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Ancestral sequence reconstruction; Domain evolution; Evolutionary modeling; Gene duplication; Protein dynamics; Protein expression; Protein thermodynamics; Sequence structure function relationships

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING AFFINITY; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOPHYSICS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL DIVISION; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOMENOLOGY; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; POPULATION GENETIC PARAMETERS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DEFECT; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84861434946     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.2071     Document Type: Review

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