Preliminary crystallographic studies of bacteriophage T4 fibritin confirm a trimeric coiled-coil structure

Virology

Volumn 219, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 190-194

  Strelkov, Sergei V ^a,b   Tao, Yizhi ^a   Rossmann, Michael G ^a   Kurochkina, Lidiya P ^c   Shneider, Mikhail M ^b,c   Mesyanzhinov, Vadim V ^b,c  

^a PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b D I IVANOVSKY INSTITUTE OF VIROLOGY   (Russian Federation)

^c BACH INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRITIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VIRUS PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE T4; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 0029897161     PISSN: 00426822     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/viro.1996.0236     Document Type: Article

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