New folds of plant lectins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 631-636

  Wright, Christine S ^a  

^a Box 980614 Inst Struct Biol D   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMARANTH; JACALIN; LECTIN;

CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROPHOBICITY; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SHORT SURVEY;

EID: 0030823061     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(97)80071-1     Document Type: Article

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