Double-mutant cycles: A powerful tool for analyzing protein structure and function

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 6, 1996, Pages

  Horovitz, Amnon ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

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Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MUTATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEINS;

EID: 0030322783     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00056-9     Document Type: Article

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