Background: While the pairwise alignments produced by sequence similarity searches are a powerful tool for identifying homologous proteins - proteins that share a common ancestor ...
Michael L. Sierk, Michael E. Smoot, Ellen J. Bass,...
The directed evolution of proteins, using an in vitro domainal shuffling strategy was proposed in (J. Kolkman and W. Stemmer, Nat. Biotech. 19, 423 (2001). Due to backhybridization...
John A. Rose, Russell J. Deaton, Masami Hagiya, Ak...
Although the mechanisms of eukaryotic chromosome segregation and cell division have been elucidated to a certain extent, those for bacteria remain largely unknown. Here we present...
Background: Type III secretion system (T3SS) is a specialized protein delivery system in gramnegative bacteria that injects proteins (called effectors) directly into the eukaryoti...
Yang Yang, Jiayuan Zhao, Robyn L. Morgan, Wenbo Ma...
Background: Accessible surface area (ASA) or solvent accessibility of amino acids in a protein has important implications. Knowledge of surface residues helps in locating potentia...
Shandar Ahmad, M. Michael Gromiha, Hamed Fawareh, ...