Amino-acid site variability among natural and designed proteins

PeerJ

Volumn 2013, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Jackson, Eleisha L ^a   Ollikainen, Noah ^b   Covert III, Arthur W ^a   Kortemme, Tanja ^b   Wilke, Claus O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fixed backbone design; Flexible backbone design; Protein design; Relative solvent accessibility; Sequence alignments; Site variability

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SITE VARIABILITY; ARTICLE; COMPUTER AIDED DESIGN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, FUNCTION AND VARIABILITY; SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE; SOLVENT EFFECT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84888378104     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.211     Document Type: Article

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