Catalytic mechanism of the aspartate proteinase pepsin A: An FTIR study

Biospectroscopy

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 291-297

  Iliadis, Georgios ^a   Zundel, Georg ^a   Brzezinski, Bogumil ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Aspartate proteinases; Difference spectra; FTIR spectroscopy; Pepsin A

Indexed keywords

EID: 33748583761     PISSN: 10754261     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1520-6343(1997)3:4<291::aid-bspy4>3.0.co;2-7     Document Type: Article

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