The organization of domains in proteins obeys Menzerath-Altmann’s law of language
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Summary
The tendency of parts to decrease their size when systems enlarge is universal for language and music, and now for parts of macromolecules, extending the MA law to natural systems.
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- article
- Published
- 2015-08-11
- Cited by
- 36
- References
- 50
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- Open access
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Keywords
Proteome, Robustness (evolution), Protein domain, Three-domain system, Domain (mathematical analysis)
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