Polysaccharide elasticity governed by chair-boat transitions of the glucopyranose ring

Nature

Volumn 396, Issue 6712, 1998, Pages 661-664

  Marszalek, Piotr E ^a   Oberhauser, Andres F ^a   Pang, Yuan Ping ^b   Fernandez, Julio M ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLYCOPYRANOSIDE; POLYSACCHARIDE;

ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; ELASTICITY; LIGAND BINDING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; WEIGHT BEARING;

AMYLOSE; DEXTRANS; ELASTICITY; GLUCANS; GLUCOSE; MICROSCOPY, ATOMIC FORCE; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; POLYSACCHARIDES;

EID: 0032542229     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/25322     Document Type: Article

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