Preliminary crystallographic characterization of ricin agglutinin

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 586-589

  Sweeney, E C ^a   Tonevitsky, A G ^b   Temiakov, D E ^b   Agapov, I I ^b   Saward, S ^a   Palmer, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b State Research Institute for the Genetics and Selection of Industrial Microorganisms   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Dimer formation; Molecular replacement; Ribosome inactivating protein; Ricin; RIP

Indexed keywords

AGGLUTININ; RICIN;

ARTICLE; DISULFIDE BOND; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; RIBOSOME; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; LECTINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLANT LECTINS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0030855028     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199708)28:4<586::AID-PROT12>3.0.CO;2-C     Document Type: Article

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