Evolution of protein cores. Constraints in point mutations as observed in globin tertiary structures.

Abstract excerpt

The amino acid sequences of ten globin chain tertiary structures were aligned and structurally equivalenced by spatial superposition of main-chain C alpha atoms. A search was then performed for structurally equivalent residue pairs that were buried in the protein core and that had mutated but mai...

Topics

• Amino Acid Sequence
• Animals
• Biological Evolution
• Globins
• Information Systems
• Macromolecular Substances
• Mathematics
• Models, Molecular
• Models, Theoretical
• Molecular Sequence Data
• Mutation
• Protein Conformation