Quasi-planar nucleus structure in apoferritin crystallization

Nature

Volumn 406, Issue 6795, 2000, Pages 494-497

  Yau, S T ^a   Vekllov, Peter G ^a,b  

^a Ctr for Microgravity and Mat Res   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APOFERRITIN;

ARTICLE; ATOMIC FORCE MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

APOFERRITINS; CRYSTALLIZATION; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0034601474     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35020035     Document Type: Article

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