Reliability of nine programs of topological predictions and their application to integral membrane channel and carrier proteins

Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 161-190

  Reddy, Abhinay ^a   Cho, Jaehoon ^a   Ling, Sam ^a   Reddy, Vamsee ^a   Shlykov, Maksim ^a   Saier, Milton H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Carrier proteins; Integral membrane channels; Intragenic duplications; Topological prediction programs; Transport protein evolution

Indexed keywords

ANTIPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; COTRANSPORTER; LIPID; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE; TOXIN; ION CHANNEL; ADENOSINE TRIPHOSPHATASE (POTASSIUM SODIUM); ANNEXIN; APC PROTEIN; BRAIN ACID SOLUBLE PROTEIN CHANNEL; CALCIUM RELEASE ACTIVATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; CHLORIDE CHANNEL; CHLOROPLAST EVELOPE ANION CHANNEL FORMING TIC110 PROTEIN; COLICIN LYSIS PROTEIN; COPPER TRANSPORTER PROTEIN; CORA METAL ION TRANSPORTER PROTEIN; CYSTEINE LOOP LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL RECEPTOR; EPITHELIAL SODIUM CHANNEL; GAP JUNCTION FORMING CONNEXIN PROTEIN; GLUTATHIONE TRANSFERASE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; INWARDLY RECTIFYING POTASSIUM CHANNEL; LIGAND GATED ION CHANNEL; MAJOR FACILITATOR SUPER PORTER PROTEIN; MER PROTEIN; MITOCHONDRIAL EF HAND CALCIUM UPTAKE PORTER PROTEIN; NEUROTRANSMITTER RECEPTOR; NON SELECTIVE CATION CHANNEL 2 PROTEIN; PROTEIN BCL 2; PURINERGIC P2X RECEPTOR; RYANODINE INOSITOL 1,4,5 TRIPHOSPHATE RECEPTOR CALCIUM CHANNEL PROTEIN; SYNAPTIC VESICLE ASSOCIATED CALCIUM CHANNEL; TRANSIENT RECEPTOR POTENTIAL CHANNEL; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; UNINDEXED DRUG; VOLTAGE DEPENDENT ANION CHANNEL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CELL DIVISION; HISTOGRAM; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; MEMBRANE STRUCTURE; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT; METABOLITE; NODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; RELIABILITY; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EVALUATION STUDY; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; ALGORITHM; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; BACILLUS SUBTILIS; BACTERIOPHAGE LAMBDA; BACTERIOPHAGE PRD1; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CELL MEMBRANE; CHANNEL GATING; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYTOPLASM; DAS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HMMTOP; HUMAN; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTEGRAL MEMBRANE CHANNEL; LACTOCOCCUS LACTIS; LIGAND BINDING; MEMSAT SVM; PHOBIUS; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SCHIZOSACCHAROMYCES POMBE; SOSUI; STREPTOCOCCUS PNEUMONIA; SVMTOP; SYNAPTOSOME; TMHMM; TOPCONS; TOPOLOGICAL PREDICTION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CARRIER PROTEINS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; ION CHANNELS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84908572111     PISSN: 14641801     EISSN: 16602412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000363506     Document Type: Article

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