Keeping it in the family: Folding studies of related proteins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 83-93

  Gunasekaran, Kannan ^a,b   Eyles, Stephen J ^b   Hagler, Arnold T ^a,b,c   Gierasch, Lila M ^b  

^a Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

^c Structural Proteomics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACYL COENZYME A; ACYLPHOSPHATASE; APOMYOGLOBIN; COLD SHOCK PROTEIN; FATTY ACID BINDING PROTEIN; IMMUNITY PROTEIN IM7; IMMUNOGLOBULIN TI 127; LYSOZYME; PROTEIN; PROTEIN G; PROTEIN SRC SH3; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0035253197     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00173-1     Document Type: Review

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