The Role of Insulin C-Peptide in the Coevolution Analyses of the Insulin Signaling Pathway: A Hint for Its Functions

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 12, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Shuai ^a   Wei, Wei ^a   Zheng, Yadong ^a   Hou, Junling ^a   Dou, Yongxi ^a   Zhang, Shaohua ^a   Luo, Xuenong ^a   Cai, Xuepeng ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PLANT PROTECTION   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C PEPTIDE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INSULIN RECEPTOR; LEUCINE;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; C-PEPTIDE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; INSULIN; MODELS, GENETIC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECEPTOR, INSULIN; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84871670990     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0052847     Document Type: Article

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