Roles for cavities in protein structure: New insights

Current Proteomics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 157-160

  Dubey, Vikash K ^a   Jagannadham, M V ^b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY GUWAHATI   (India)

^b BANARAS HINDU UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Protein design; Protein folding; Protein structure function

Indexed keywords

EID: 53249088236     PISSN: 15701646     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157016408785909668     Document Type: Review

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