Amino acid composition of proteins reduces deleterious impact of mutations

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Hormoz, Sahand ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PROTEIN; PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETIC CODE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MUTATION; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO ACIDS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC CODE; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MUTATION; PROTEINS; PROTEOME; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 84913550995     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep02919     Document Type: Article

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