Realizing the potential of electron cryo-microscopy

Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 3-13

  Henderson, Richard ^a  

^a MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FROZEN SECTION; MACROMOLECULE; PARTICLE SIZE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ADENOVIRIDAE; BIOPHYSICS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRONS; GENETIC VECTORS; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE;

EID: 3142655417     PISSN: 00335835     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0033583504003920     Document Type: Review

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