History of protein crystallography in China

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 362, Issue 1482, 2007, Pages 1035-1042

  Rao, Zihe ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF BIOPHYSICS   (China)

^b TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANKAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

History; Macromolecular structure; Protein crystallography; Structural biology

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PROTEIN; RESEARCH; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

SUIDAE; SUS;

PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; CHINA; HISTORY; METHODOLOGY; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CHINA; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; PROTEINS;

EID: 34347398492     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2007.2032     Document Type: Review

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