Racemic crystallography - Easy crystals and easy structures: What's not to like?

Protein Science

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1135-1138

  Matthews, Brian W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRYSTAL; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; NOTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RACEMIZATION; RADIATION SCATTERING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANTIMICROBIAL CATIONIC PEPTIDES; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 66349119864     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.125     Document Type: Note

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