Ancestral protein reconstruction: Techniques and applications

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 397, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 1-21

  Merkl, Rainer ^a   Sterner, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

ancestral sequence reconstruction; phylogenetic analysis; protein evolution; vertical analysis of protein function

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ENZYME; NUCLEOTIDE; STEROID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BAYES THEOREM; CHROMATOPHORE; DNA SEQUENCE; GENE DUPLICATION; LAST COMMON ANCESTOR; PALEOARCHEAN; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENY; PRECAMBRIAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; HUMANS; PROTEINS;

EID: 84950135105     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: 14374315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/hsz-2015-0158     Document Type: Review

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