Coacervation characteristics of recombinant human tropoelastin

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 250, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 92-98

  Vrhovski, Bernadette ^a   Jensen, Sacha ^a   Weiss, Anthony S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coacervation; Elastin; Tropoelastin

Indexed keywords

RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; TROPOELASTIN;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COACERVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENTROPY; LIGHT SCATTERING; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0030809954     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.1997.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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