Protein linguistics - a grammar for modular protein assembly?
The correspondence between biology and linguistics at the level of sequence and lexical inventories, and of structure and syntax, has fuelled attempts to describe genome structure by the rules of formal linguistics. But how can we define protein linguistic rules? And how could compositional semantics improve our understanding of protein organization and functional plasticity?
Consorzio Mario Negri Sud, Marie Curie Unit of Actin Cytoskeleton Regulation, Department of Cell Biology and Oncology, Via Nazionale 8A, 66030 Santa Maria Imbaro, Italy. gimona@negrisud.it
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D008037:Linguistics; D017510:Protein Folding; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000502:physiology*
D011506:Proteins