From computer simulations to human disease: Emerging themes in protein folding

Cell

Volumn 97, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 291-298

  Radford, Sheena E ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID; SPECTRIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; HUMAN; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033617266     PISSN: 00928674     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0092-8674(00)80739-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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