Single-molecule studies of protein folding.

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Published in Annu Rev Biochem on January 01, 2008

Authors

Alessandro Borgia1, Philip M Williams, Jane Clarke

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Chemistry, Cambridge University, Medical Research Council Centre for Protein Engineering, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ab697@cam.ac.uk

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