Insilco analysis of functionally important residues in folate receptors
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Insilco analysis of functionally important residues in folate receptors
Lack of crystal structure data of folate binding proteins has left so many questions unanswered (for example, important residues in active site, binding domain, important amino acid residues involved in interactions between ligand and receptor). With sequence alignment and PROSITE motif identification, we attempted to answer evolutionarily significant residues that are of functional importance ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Bioinformation
سال: 2007
ISSN: 0973-8894,0973-2063
DOI: 10.6026/97320630002157