Early events in protein folding

Current Science

Volumn 96, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1053-1070

  Sinha, Kalyan K ^a   Udgaonkar, Jayant B ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Cooperativity; Intermediate; Polypeptide chain collapse; Protein folding; Specificity

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349139155     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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