The concept of a random coil : Residual structure in peptides and denatured proteins

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 5, 1996, Pages

  Smith, Lorna J ^a   Fiebig, Klaus M ^a   Schwalbe, Harald ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 0030320442     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00046-6     Document Type: Article

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