Serpins 2005 - Fun between the β-sheets: Meeting report based upon presentations made at the 4th International Symposium on Serpin Structure, Function and Biology (Cairns, Australia)

FEBS Journal

Volumn 272, Issue 19, 2005, Pages 4868-4873

  Whisstock, James C ^a,b   Bottomley, Stephen P ^a   Bird, Phillip I ^a   Pike, Robert N ^a   Coughlin, Paul ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Conformational disease; Protease; Serpin; Serpinopathies

Indexed keywords

HORMONE; PROTEINASE; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITOR;

CONFERENCE PAPER; CONFORMATION; ENZYME INHIBITION; EUKARYOTE; METASTASIS; MUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROKARYOTE; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN POLYMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SERINE PROTEINASE INHIBITORS; SERPINS;

EUKARYOTA; PROKARYOTA; PROTISTA;

EID: 26244444676     PISSN: 1742464X     EISSN: 17424658     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-4658.2005.04927.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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