The analysis of alignments of functionally equivalent proteins can reveal regularities such as correlated positions or residue patterns which are important to ensure a specific f...
Daniel A. Keim, Daniela Oelke, Royal Truman, Klaus...
Background: Many protein interactions, especially those involved in signaling, involve short linear motifs consisting of 5-10 amino acid residues that interact with modular protei...
Hugo Y. K. Lam, Philip M. Kim, Janine Mok, Raffi T...
Background: Sequence alignments form part of many investigations in molecular biology, including the determination of phylogenetic relationships, the prediction of protein structu...
Pierre M. Durand, Scott Hazelhurst, Theresa L. Coe...
Background: Structural variations caused by a wide range of physico-chemical and biological sources directly influence the function of a protein. For enzymatic proteins, the struc...
Drew H. Bryant, Mark Moll, Brian Y. Chen, Viachesl...
Background: The recent explosion in the availability of complete genome sequences has led to the cataloging of tens of thousands of new proteins and putative proteins. Many of the...