γ-AApeptides: Design, Structure, and Applications

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 428-441

  Shi, Yan ^a   Teng, Peng ^a   Sang, Peng ^a   She, Fengyu ^a   Wei, Lulu ^a   Cai, Jianfeng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY;

MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 84961833554     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: 15204898     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.accounts.5b00492     Document Type: Review

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