Identifying proteins and post-translational modifications by mass spectrometry

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 393-400

  Küster, Bernhard ^a   Mann, Matthias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN MODIFICATION; REVIEW;

EID: 0032102792     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(98)80075-4     Document Type: Article

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