Twenty years of the MEROPS database of proteolytic enzymes, their substrates and inhibitors

Nucleic Acids Research

Volumn 44, Issue D1, 2016, Pages D343-D350

  Rawlings, Neil D ^a   Barrett, Alan J ^a   Finn, Robert ^a  

^a WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDASE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE INHIBITOR; PEPTIDE HYDROLASE; PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DATA PROCESSING; ENZYME SUBSTRATE; HUMAN; MEROPS DATABASE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN INTERACTION; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; METABOLISM; MOUSE;

ANIMALS; CATALYTIC DOMAIN; DATABASES, PROTEIN; HUMANS; MICE; PEPTIDE HYDROLASES; PROTEASE INHIBITORS;

EID: 84976878698     PISSN: 03051048     EISSN: 13624962     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkv1118     Document Type: Article

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