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Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 7, 68-73 (January 2006) | doi:10.1038/nrm1785
Opinion: Protein linguistics — a grammar for modular protein assembly?
Mario Gimona1 About the author
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Abstract
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?
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Mario Gimona is at the 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.
Email: gimona@negrisud.it
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