Imaging RNA and dynamic protein segments with low-resolution virus crystallography: Experimental design, data processing and implications of electron density maps

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1439-1452

  Tsuruta, H ^a   Reddy, V S ^b   Wikoff, W R ^b,c   Johnson, J E ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacteriophage structure; Protein crystallography; Small angle scattering; Virus crystallography; Virus structure

Indexed keywords

VIRUS PROTEIN; VIRUS RNA;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BACTERIOPHAGE; CALCULATION; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; FOURIER TRANSFORMATION; IMAGING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RNA SEQUENCE; VIRUS CAPSID; VIRUS PARTICLE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

FLOCK HOUSE VIRUS; MIRIDAE; UNIDENTIFIED BACTERIOPHAGE;

EID: 0032545188     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2231     Document Type: Article

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