Creating novel protein scripts beyond natural alphabets

Systems and Synthetic Biology

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-256

  Kumar, Anil ^a   Ramakrishnan, Vibin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b RAJIV GANDHI CENTRE FOR BIOTECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Heterochiral proteins; Polypeptide stereochemistry; Protein design; Protein structure energetics

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953183714     PISSN: 18725325     EISSN: 18725333     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11693-011-9068-5     Document Type: Article

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