Protein-Protein Interactions Mediate Mitochondrial Cholesterol Transport and Steroid Biosynthesis
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Discovering Domains Mediating Protein Interactions
Background: Protein-protein interactions do not provide any direct information regarding the domains within the proteins that mediate the interactions. The majority of proteins are multi domain proteins and the interaction between them is often defined by the pairs of their domains. Most of the former studies focus only on interacting domain pairs. However they do not consider the in...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Biological Chemistry
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0021-9258
DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m608820200