Engineering and chemical synthesis of a transmembrane protein: The HCV protease cofactor protein NS4A [2]

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 121, Issue 33, 1999, Pages 7698-7699

  Bianchi, Elisabetta ^a   Ingenito, Raffaele ^a   Simon, Reyna J ^b,c   Pessi, Antonello ^a  

^a IRBM   (Italy)

^b Gryphon Therapeutics   (United States)

^c MetaXen   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; VIRUS ENZYME; VIRUS PROTEIN;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTALLIZATION; HEPATITIS C VIRUS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LETTER; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; SOLUBILITY;

EID: 0033603896     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja9901617     Document Type: Letter

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