Internal Movements in Immunoglobulin Molecules

Advances in Immunology

Volumn 48, Issue C, 1990, Pages 1-40

  Nezlin, Roald ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN;

HUMAN; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; CARBOHYDRATES; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN JOINING REGION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, FAB; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, FC; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOTION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0025365308     PISSN: 00652776     EISSN: 15578445     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0065-2776(08)60750-6     Document Type: Article

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