Analysis of insertions/deletions in protein structures.

doi:10.1016/0022-2836(92)91008-d

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Analysis of insertions/deletions in protein structures.

Journal of molecular biology - 20 Mar 1992

Pascarella S, Argos P

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An analysis of insertions and deletions (indels) occurring in a databank of multiple sequence alignments based on protein tertiary structure is reported. Indels prefer to be short (1 to 5 residues). The average intervening sequence length between them versus the percentage of residue identity in...

Topics

Amino Acid Sequence
Animals
Databases, Factual
Humans
Models, Molecular
Molecular Sequence Data
Mutation
Proteins
Sequence Alignment

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