Early Events in Protein Folding Explored by Rapid Mixing Methods

Protein Folding Handbook

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 491-535

  Roder, Heinrich ^a   Maki, Kosuke ^b   Latypov, Ramil F ^c   Cheng, Hong ^a   Shastry, M C Ramachandra ^a  

^a FOX CHASE CANCER CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c AMGEN INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Computer; Events; Proteins; Simulations; Techniques

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889765760     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527619498.ch15     Document Type: Chapter

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