Do we underestimate the importance of water in cell biology?

Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology

Volumn 7, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 861-866

  Chaplin, Martin ^a  

^a LONDON SOUTH BANK UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COMMUNICATION; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HYDROGEN BOND; NONHUMAN; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; REVIEW;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; CELL COMMUNICATION; CELLS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; PROTONS; WATER;

EID: 33750286994     PISSN: 14710072     EISSN: 14710080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrm2021     Document Type: Review

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