Alessandro Borgia, Wenwei Zheng1, Karin Buholzer

  • 1Laboratory of Chemical Physics, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, National Institutes of Health , Bethesda, Maryland 20892-0520, United States.

概括

化学变质剂扩大了未折叠的蛋白质尺寸, 调和了相互矛盾的实验数据. 这项研究证实了多种技术的聚链扩张,解决了蛋白质折叠研究中的长期差异.

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