Structures of two repeats of spectrin suggest models of flexibility

Cell

Volumn 98, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 523-535

  Grum, Valerie L ^a   Li, Dongning ^a   MacDonald, Ruby I ^a   Mondragón, Alfonso ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SPECTRIN;

ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CYTOSKELETON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TANDEM REPEAT;

GALLUS GALLUS;

EID: 0033588274     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)81980-7     Document Type: Article

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