Design principles underpinning the regulatory diversity of protein kinases

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1602, 2012, Pages 2529-2539

  Oruganty, Krishnadev ^a   Kannan, Natarajan ^a,b  

^a University of Georgia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostery; Bioinformatics; Genomics; Phylogeny; Regulation; Signalling

Indexed keywords

BIOINFORMATICS; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EUKARYOTE; GENOMICS; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; NATURAL SELECTION; PHYLOGENY; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN;

EID: 84865100067     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2012.0015     Document Type: Review

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