A structural explanation for the twilight zone of protein sequence homology

Structure

Volumn 4, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1123-1127

  Chung, Su Yun ^a   Subbiah, S ^b,c  

^a Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WISTAR INSTITUTE   (United States)

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EID: 0009130599     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0969-2126(96)00119-0     Document Type: Article

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