PrionScan: An online database of predicted prion domains in complete proteomes

BMC Genomics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Espinosa Angarica, Vladimir ^a,b   Angulo, Alfonso ^a   Giner, Arturo ^a   Losilla, Guillermo ^a   Ventura, Salvador ^c   Sancho, Javier ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTO DE QUÍMICA FÍSICA ROCASOLANO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amyloid fibrils; Prion domain; Prion prediction; Protein aggregation

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER INTERFACE; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; ONLINE SYSTEM; ORGANISMS; PRIONSCAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; TAXON;

MAMMALIA;

ANIMALS; DATABASES, FACTUAL; HUMANS; INTERNET; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOME; PROTEOMICS; SEARCH ENGINE; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 84896720208     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712164     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-102     Document Type: Article

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