The relationship of protein conservation and sequence length

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>In general, the length of a protein sequence is determined by its function and the wide variance in the lengths of an organism's proteins reflects the diversity of specific functional roles for these proteins. However, additiona...

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Main Authors: Panchenko Anna R, Koonin Eugene V, Souvorov Alexander, Lipman David J, Tatusova Tatiana A
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2002-11-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/2/20