Difference in fibril core stability between two tau four-repeat domain proteins: a hydrogen-deuterium exchange

Gayathri Ramachandran1, Jayant B Udgaonkar

  • 1National Centre for Biological Sciences, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research , Bangalore 560 065, India.

Biochemistry
|November 22, 2013
PubMed

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