Amyloidogenic determinants are usually not buried

BMC Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Frousios, Kimon K ^a   Iconomidou, Vassiliki A ^a   Karletidi, Carolina Maria ^a   Hamodrakas, Stavros J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ALGORITHM; AMYLOIDOSIS; ARTICLE; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; INTERNET; NONHUMAN; ONLINE SYSTEM; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; PROTEIN DATABASE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; DATABASES, PROTEIN; SOFTWARE;

EID: 67651177799     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726807     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-9-44     Document Type: Article

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