Fluorescence resonance energy transfer dynamics during protein folding: Evidence of multistage folding kinetics

Current Science

Volumn 85, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 68-72

  Mukherjee, Arnab ^a   Bagchi, Biman ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

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