Evolutionary information hidden in a single protein structure

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 80, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1647-1657

  Shih, Chien Hua ^a   Chang, Chih Min ^a   Lin, Yeong Shin ^a   Lo, Wei Cheng ^a   Hwang, Jenn Kang ^a  

^a NATIONAL CHIAO TUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

B factors; Contact number; Evolution; Protein structure; Sequence conservation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; ENZYMES; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID;

EID: 84862785625     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24058     Document Type: Article

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