Threading your way to protein function

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 779-783

  Firestine, Steven M ^a   Nixon, Andrew E ^a   Benkovic, Stephen J ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENZYME; PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CHEMISTRY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BINDING SITES; ENZYMES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0030253252     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(96)90061-7     Document Type: Note

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