Sequence heuristics to encode phase behaviour in intrinsically disordered protein polymers

Nature Materials

Volumn 14, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1164-1171

  Quiroz, Felipe Garcia ^a,b   Chilkoti, Ashutosh ^a  

^a Duke University   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENCODING (SYMBOLS); POLYMERS; PROTEINS; SELF ASSEMBLY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGICALLY ACTIVE PEPTIDES; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; MAN MADE MATERIAL; PHYSIOLOGICAL SOLUTION; REPEAT PROTEINS; SYNTHETIC POLYMERS; UPPER CRITICAL SOLUTION TEMPERATURE;

BIOSYNTHESIS;

PROTEOME;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; PROCEDURES; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PROTEOME; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, AMINO ACID; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN;

EID: 84944741506     PISSN: 14761122     EISSN: 14764660     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmat4418     Document Type: Article

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