Protein folding in the cell: Challenges and progress

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 32-41

  Gershenson, Anne ^a   Gierasch, Lila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; CHAPERONIN; MESSENGER RNA;

CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL MEMBRANE; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SCREENING; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR IMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REACTION ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL TRANSPORT; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENETIC FITNESS; HUMANS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 79551687316     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2010.11.001     Document Type: Review

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