The C. elegans Rab Family: Identification, Classification and Toolkit Construction

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  Gallegos, Maria E ^a   Balakrishnan, Sanjeev ^a   Chandramouli, Priya ^a   Arora, Shaily ^a   Azameera, Aruna ^a   Babushekar, Anitha ^a   Bargoma, Emilee ^a   Bokhari, Abdulmalik ^a   Chava, Siva Kumari ^a   Das, Pranti ^a   Desai, Meetali ^a   Decena, Darlene ^a   Saramma, Sonia Dev Devadas ^a   Dey, Bodhidipra ^a   Doss, Anna Louise ^a   Gor, Nilang ^a   Gudiputi, Lakshmi ^a   Guo, Chunyuan ^a   Hande, Sonali ^a   Jensen, Megan ^a   Jones, Samantha ^a   Jones, Norman ^a   Jorgens, Danielle ^a   Karamchedu, Padma ^a   Kamrani, Kambiz ^a   Kolora, Lakshmi Divya ^a   Kristensen, Line ^a   Kwan, Kelly ^a   Lau, Henry ^a   Maharaj, Pranesh ^a   Mander, Navneet ^a   Mangipudi, Kalyani ^a   Menakuru, Himabindu ^a   Mody, Vaishali ^a   Mohanty, Sandeepa ^a   Mukkamala, Sridevi ^a   Mundra, Sheena A ^a   Nagaraju, Sudharani ^a   Narayanaswamy, Rajhalutshimi ^a   Ndungu Case, Catherine ^a   Noorbakhsh, Mersedeh ^a   Patel, Jigna ^a   Patel, Puja ^a   Pendem, Swetha Vandana ^a   Ponakala, Anusha ^a   Rath, Madhusikta ^a   Robles, Michael C ^a   Rokkam, Deepti ^a   Roth, Caroline ^a   Sasidharan, Preeti ^a   Shah, Sapana ^a   Tandon, Shweta ^a   Suprai, Jagdip ^a   Truong, Tina Quynh Nhu ^a   Uthayaruban, Rubatharshini ^a   Varma, Ajitha ^a   Ved, Urvi ^a   Wang, Zeran ^a   Yu, Zhe ^a   more..

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GUANOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE; RAB PROTEIN; RAB31 PROTEIN; RAB50 PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CLASSIFICATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE SEQUENCE; INTRON; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN READING FRAME; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FAMILY; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS PROTEINS; CLONE CELLS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; HUMANS; INTRONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; OPEN READING FRAMES; PHYLOGENY; RAB GTP-BINDING PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RNA SPLICING; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

CAENORHABDITIS ELEGANS; EUKARYOTA;

EID: 84869805115     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0049387     Document Type: Article

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