Possible mechanism for cold denaturation of proteins at high pressure

Manuel I Marqués1, Jose M Borreguero, H Eugene Stanley

  • 1Center for Polymer Studies and Department of Physics, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA. manuel@argento.bu.edu

Physical Review Letters
|October 4, 2003
PubMed

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