The four-helix bundle: An attractive fold

International Congress Series

Volumn 1283, Issue , 2005, Pages 15-20

  Eckenhoff, Roderic G ^a   Liu, Renyu ^a   Johansson, Jonas S ^a   Loll, Patrick J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anesthesia; Calorimetry; Ferritin; Halothane; Isoflurane; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

EID: 33646440319     PISSN: 05315131     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ics.2005.06.079     Document Type: Article

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