The evolution of the secreted regulatory protein progranulin

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2015, Pages

  Palfree, Roger G E ^a   Bennett, Hugh P J ^a   Bateman, Andrew ^a  

^a RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF THE MCGILL UNIVERSITY HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROGRANULIN; GRANULIN PRECURSOR PROTEIN; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; COELACANTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUKARYOTE; EXON; GENE DUPLICATION; GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SHARK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TETRAPOD; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; FUNGUS; GENETIC DATABASE; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PLANT; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; DATABASES, GENETIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FUNGI; HUMANS; INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LIKELIHOOD FUNCTIONS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PLANTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84942279685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133749     Document Type: Article

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