Galectins, an ancient lectin family, are characterized by specific binding of β-galactosides
through evolutionary conserved sequence elements of carbohydrate-recognition domain …

Histone acetylation marks are written by histone acetyltransferases (HATs) and read by
bromodomains (BrDs), and less commonly by other protein modules. These proteins …

Bacteriophages from the Inoviridae family (inoviruses) are characterized by their unique
morphology, genome content and infection cycle. One of the most striking features of …

Abstract We describe the Conserved Domain Search service (CD-Search), a web-based tool
for the detection of structural and functional domains in protein sequences. CD-Search uses …

Eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is an economically important vegetable crop in the
Solanaceae family, with extensive diversity among landraces and close relatives. Here, we …

We present here a draft genome sequence of the red jungle fowl, Gallus gallus. Because the
chicken is a modern descendant of the dinosaurs and the first non-mammalian amniote to …

The TRANSFAC® database on transcription factors, their binding sites, nucleotide
distribution matrices and regulated genes as well as the complementing database …

Pfam is a database of protein families that currently contains 7973 entries (release 18.0). A
recent development in Pfam has enabled the grou** of related families into clans. Pfam …

Two-component signal transduction based on phosphotransfer from a histidine protein
kinase to a response regulator protein is a prevalent strategy for coupling environmental …

Background The MYB superfamily constitutes one of the most abundant groups of
transcription factors described in plants. Nevertheless, their functions appear to be highly …