Intrinsic Disorder in the Human Spliceosomal Proteome

PLoS Computational Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2012, Pages

  Korneta, Iga ^a   Bujnicki, Janusz M ^a,b  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR AND CELL BIOLOGY   (Poland)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACIDS;

DISORDERED REGIONS; EUKARYOTICS; HUMAN CELLS; INTRINSIC DISORDER; MACROMOLECULAR COMPLEXES; MOLECULAR MACHINES; PRE-MRNA; PROTEOMICS; SPLICEOSOMES; THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE;

PROTEINS;

MESSENGER RNA; PROTEOME; RIBONUCLEOPROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CATALYSIS; EXON; INTRON; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN METHYLATION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; RNA SPLICING; SPLICEOSOME;

EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84866076924     PISSN: 1553734X     EISSN: 15537358     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002641     Document Type: Article

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