Multiple co-evolutionary networks are supported by the common tertiary scaffold of the LacI/GalR proteins

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 2013, Pages

  Parente, Daniel J ^a   Swint Kruse, Liskin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN GALR; PROTEIN LACI; REPRESSOR PROTEIN; SCAFFOLD PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GENETIC CONSERVATION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PARALOGY; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BASE SEQUENCE; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI PROTEINS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; LAC REPRESSORS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MULTIGENE FAMILY; PHYLOGENY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; REPRESSOR PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84896714562     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084398     Document Type: Article

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