Structural and functional aspects of cardosins

Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology

Volumn 436, Issue , 1998, Pages 423-433

  Faro, Carlos ^a   Ramalho Santos, Miguel ^a   Veríssimo, Paula ^a   Pissarra, José ^b   Frazão, Carlos ^c   Costa, Júlia ^c   Lin, Xin Li ^d   Tang, Jordan ^d   Pires, Euclides ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^c INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

^d OKLAHOMA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC PROTEINASE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENZYME ANALYSIS; ENZYME ISOLATION; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; ENZYME PURIFICATION; ENZYME STRUCTURE; ENZYME SYNTHESIS; MOLECULAR CLONING; NONHUMAN; PLANT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031919790     PISSN: 00652598     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-5373-1_58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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