Targeting the Intrinsically Disordered Proteome Using Small-Molecule Ligands

Methods in Enzymology - Tập 611 - Trang 703-734 - 2018
Sławomir Wójcik1,2, Melissa Birol3, Elizabeth Rhoades3, Andrew D. Miranker1,4, Zachary A. Levine1,5
1Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
2Department of Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, CT, United States
3Department of Chemistry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States
4Department of Chemical and Environmental Engineering, Yale University, New Haven CT, United States
5Department of Pathology, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, United States

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