Designing polymers that mimic biomolecules

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 530-535

  Kirshenbaum, Kent ^a   Zuckermann, Ronald N ^b   Dill, Ken A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOPOLYMER; MONOMER; OLIGOMER; POLYMER; PROTEIN; RNA;

CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; MOLECULAR MIMICRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNTHESIS;

EID: 2142742534     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80075-X     Document Type: Article

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