Structural and functional insight into the universal stress protein family

Evolutionary Applications

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 434-449

  Tkaczuk, Karolina L ^a,b   Shumilin, Igor A ^a,b   Chruszcz, Maksymilian ^a,b,d   Evdokimova, Elena ^b,c   Savchenko, Alexei ^b,c   Minor, Wladek ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b Midwest Center for Structural Genomics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Archaeoglobus fulgidus; Crystal structures; Nitrosomonas europaea; Pathogens; Sequence analyses; Structural comparison; Structural genomics; Universal stress protein

Indexed keywords

EID: 84875676199     PISSN: 17524563     EISSN: 17524571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/eva.12057     Document Type: Article

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