New results using Laue diffraction and time-resolved crystallography

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 612-618

  Stoddard, Barry L ^a  

^a Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE; MYOGLOBIN; NUCLEASE; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PEROXIDASE; PHOSPHATASE; SYNTHETASE;

ARTICLE; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MACROMOLECULE; PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 0031734969     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(98)80153-X     Document Type: Article

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