Incorporating anomalous scattering centres into macromolecules

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 611-616

  Pappa, Helen S ^a   Stewart, Albert E ^b   McDonald, Neil Q ^a  

^a IMPERIAL CANCER RESEARCH FUND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

BIOSYNTHESIS; CHEMICAL LABELING; CHEMICAL MODIFICATION; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0030271746     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(96)80026-1     Document Type: Article

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