Iron-sulfur clusters, protein folds, and ferredoxin stability

Protein Folding and Metal Ions: Mechanisms, Biology and Disease

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 81-96

  Leal, Sónia S ^a   Gomes, Cláudio M ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE TECNOLOGIA QUÍMICA E BIOLÓGICA   (Portugal)

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