Protein folding in vivo: The importance of molecular chaperones

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 26-33

  Feldman, Douglas E ^a   Frydman, Judith ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN 70; PROTEIN; PROTEIN DNAK;

PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

EID: 0033953974     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)00044-5     Document Type: Review

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