PrionW: A server to identify proteins containing glutamine/asparagine rich prion-like domains and their amyloid cores

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 43, Issue W1, 2015, Pages W331-W337

  Zambrano, Rafael ^a   Conchillo Sole, Oscar ^a   Iglesias, Valentin ^a   Illa, Ricard ^a   Rousseau, Frederic ^b   Schymkowitz, Joost ^b   Sabate, Raimon ^c   Daura, Xavier ^a,d   Ventura, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d INSTITUCIÓ CATALANA DE RECERCA I ESTUDIS AVANÇATS ICREA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID PROTEIN; ASPARAGINE; GLUTAMINE; PRION PROTEIN; PROTEOME; AMYLOID; FUNGAL PROTEIN; PRION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GENETIC CONSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION STUDY; YEAST; CHEMISTRY; INTERNET; PRION; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS;

AMYLOID; ASPARAGINE; FUNGAL PROTEINS; GLUTAMINE; INTERNET; PRIONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEOMICS; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84964334339     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv490     Document Type: Article

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