On the Contribution of Protein Spatial Organization to the Physicochemical Interconnection between Proteins and Their Cognate mRNAs
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Experimental Section
2.1. Set of Protein 3D Structures
2.2. Calculations of Protein/mRNA Sequence Correlations
2.3. Analysis of Protein Structures
2.4. Enrichment Analysis
3. Results
3.1. Intrinsic Sequence Correlations in the 3D Set
3.2. Contribution of Protein Residue Accessibilities to Matching with Cognate mRNAs
3.3. Distribution of Nucleobase Interaction Preferences in Folded Protein Structures
4. Discussion
Acknowledgments
Author Contributions
Conflicts of Interest
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Beier, A.; Zagrovic, B.; Polyansky, A.A. On the Contribution of Protein Spatial Organization to the Physicochemical Interconnection between Proteins and Their Cognate mRNAs. Life 2014, 4, 788-799. https://doi.org/10.3390/life4040788
Beier A, Zagrovic B, Polyansky AA. On the Contribution of Protein Spatial Organization to the Physicochemical Interconnection between Proteins and Their Cognate mRNAs. Life. 2014; 4(4):788-799. https://doi.org/10.3390/life4040788
Chicago/Turabian StyleBeier, Andreas, Bojan Zagrovic, and Anton A. Polyansky. 2014. "On the Contribution of Protein Spatial Organization to the Physicochemical Interconnection between Proteins and Their Cognate mRNAs" Life 4, no. 4: 788-799. https://doi.org/10.3390/life4040788