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Protein Structure and Denaturation

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ASTBURY and Woods' fundamental work upon the micellar structure of the protein of wool fibres,1 and the hypothesis they put forward as an explanation of the changes observed in the X-ray pattern when such fibres are stretched, would seem to be full of significance for protein chemistry in general.

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RIMINGTON, C. Protein Structure and Denaturation. Nature 127, 440–441 (1931). https://doi.org/10.1038/127440b0

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