AGGRESCAN: Method, application, and perspectives for drug design

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 819, Issue , 2012, Pages 199-220

  De Groot, Natalia S ^a   Castillo, Virginia ^a   Graña Montes, Ricardo ^a   Ventura, Salvador ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

AGGRESCAN; Amyloid; Biomaterials; Inclusion bodies; Protein aggregation; Protein misfolding; Protein production

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID BETA PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PREALBUMIN; PROTEIN;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG DESIGN; GENETICS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MUTATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE;

ALGORITHMS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID BETA-PEPTIDES; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DRUG DESIGN; HUMANS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MUTATION; PEPTIDES; PREALBUMIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84855926368     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-61779-465-0_14     Document Type: Article

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