Structure function analysis: Lessons from human chorionic gonadotropin

Indian Journal of Experimental Biology

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 434-447

  Banerjee, Ashish ^a   Venkatesh, Natarajan ^a   Murthy, Satyanarayana ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL ORGANS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DIMERS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PROTEINS;

GLYCOPROTEINS;

HORMONES;

EID: 0036221782     PISSN: 00195189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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