Take home lessons from studies of related proteins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 66-74

  Nickson, Adrian A ^a,b   Wensley, Beth G ^a,b   Clarke, Jane ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b MEDIMMUNE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CHAIN KNOTTING; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; FRICTION; HYDROPHOBICITY; INTERNAL FRICTION; KINETICS; PARACELSUS SWITCH; PHYSICAL PARAMETERS; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; KINETICS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84873525034     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.11.009     Document Type: Review

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