Hyaluronan: Polysaccharide chaos to protein organisation

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 617-622

  Day, Anthony J ^a   Sheehan, John K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOSAMINOGLYCAN; HYALURONIC ACID; HYALURONIC ACID BINDING PROTEIN; HYALURONIDASE; POLYMER; POLYSACCHARIDE;

AQUEOUS SOLUTION; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONFORMATION; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ENZYME STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; SIMULATION;

EID: 0035444147     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00256-6     Document Type: Review

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