Crystal structures of saposins A and C.

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Published in Protein Sci on July 05, 2006

Authors

Victoria E Ahn1, Paul Leyko, Jean-René Alattia, Lu Chen, Gilbert G Privé

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Medical Biophysics, University of Toronto, Canada.

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