The impact of splicing on protein domain architecture

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 451-458

  Light, Sara ^a,b   Elofsson, Arne ^a,c  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Bioinformatics Infrastructure for Life Sciences ^*  (Sweden)

^c Linköping University   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CADHERIN; COLLAGEN; COLLAGEN ALPHA 3; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR; FIBROBLAST GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALTERNATIVE RNA SPLICING; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENETIC DATABASE; HUMAN; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ALTERNATIVE SPLICING; ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; EUKARYOTA; HUMANS; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; PROTEIN SPLICING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOME;

EUKARYOTA; METAZOA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879147679     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.02.013     Document Type: Review

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