Too packed to change: Side-chain packing and site-specific substitution rates in protein evolution

PeerJ

Volumn 2015, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Marcos, Maŕia Laura ^a   Echave, Julian ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE SAN MARTÍN   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Contact density; Packing; Protein evolution; Rate variation among sites; Side chain; Structural constraints

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; BOOTSTRAPPING; EVOLUTION; MECHANICAL STRESS; MODEL; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PREDICTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT;

EID: 84982757640     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.911     Document Type: Article

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