Predicting functionally informative mutations in Escherichia coli BamA using evolutionary covariance analysis

Genetics

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 443-455

  Dwyer, Robert S ^a   Ricci, Dante P ^a   Colwell, Lucy J ^b,c   Silhavy, Thomas J ^a   Wingreen, Ned S ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIPOPROTEIN; OUTER MEMBRANE BETA BARREL PROTEIN BAM A; OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; BAM A D740 G; BAM A R661 G; BIOGENESIS; BIOINFORMATICS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIRECT COUPLING ANALYSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; GENETIC ANALYSIS; MEMBRANE PERMEABILITY; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OUTER MEMBRANE; PARALOGY; PHENOTYPE; POINT MUTATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SITE DIRECTED MUTAGENESIS; WILD TYPE;

BAMA; DIRECT COUPLING ANALYSIS (DCA); ESCHERICHIA COLI; FHAC, OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; BACTERIAL OUTER MEMBRANE PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84884962856     PISSN: 00166731     EISSN: 19432631     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1534/genetics.113.155861     Document Type: Article

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