The use of hydrostatic pressure as a tool to study viruses and other macromolecular assemblages

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 166-175

  Silva, Jerson L ^a   Foguel, Debora ^a   Da Poian, Andrea T ^a   Prevelige, Peter E ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPLEX FORMATION; DNA PROTEIN COMPLEX; HYDROSTATIC PRESSURE; NONHUMAN; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN NUCLEIC ACID INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; THERMODYNAMICS; VIRUS ASSEMBLY;

EID: 0029869615     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(96)80071-6     Document Type: Article

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