Three-dimensional structural studies on fragments of fibrinogen and fibrin

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 792-798

  Doolittle, Russell F ^a   Spraggon, Glen ^a   Everse, Stephen J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIBRIN; FIBRINOGEN; GLYCOPROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THROMBIN;

CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FIBRIN CLOT; HUMAN; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

VERTEBRATA;

EID: 0032441774     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(98)80100-0     Document Type: Article

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