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Fabrication of Uniform Nanoscale Cavities via Silicon Direct Wafer Bonding
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Building a metal binding domain, one half at a time
Sarah L J Michel1, Jeremy M Berg
1Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA.
Chemistry & Biology
|June 25, 2002
Abstract:
The recently determined structure of a zinc binding peptide reveals that a particular sequence can adopt one stable fold as an isolated peptide but adopt an alternative structure as part of a larger protein domain.
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