A scientific revolution?

EMBO Reports

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 691-694

  Bussard, Alain E ^a  

^a INSTITUT PASTEUR   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; PRION PROTEIN;

ACHIEVEMENT; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EVOLUTION; HEREDITY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THEORY; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGY; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; PRIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY;

EID: 30744439294     PISSN: 1469221X     EISSN: 14693178     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.embor.7400497     Document Type: Review

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