Prediction of the secondary structure of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor nontransmembrane regions

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 391-398

  Ortells, Marcelo O ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Automatic predictions; IR spectroscopy; Neural networks; RAMAN spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CHOLINERGIC RECEPTOR; ION CHANNEL; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ARTICLE; LIGAND BINDING; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SPECTROSCOPY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030780210     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199711)29:3'391::AID-PROT12'3.0.CO;2-I     Document Type: Article

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