Structure and behaviour of proteins, nucleic acids and viruses from vibrational Raman optical activity

Spectroscopy

Volumn 17, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 101-126

  Barron, Laurence D ^a   Blanch, Ewan W ^a   McColl, Iain H ^a   Syme, Christoper D ^a   Hecht, Lutz ^a   Nielsen, Kurt ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Chirality; Conformational disease; Fold recognition; Nucleic acid structure; Protein conformation; Raman optical activity; Vibrational spectroscopy; Virus structure

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACIDS; PATTERN RECOGNITION; RAMAN SCATTERING; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

RAMAN OPTICAL ACTIVITY (ROA);

PROTEINS;

ALPHA LACTALBUMIN; CAPSID PROTEIN; COAT PROTEIN; CONCANAVALIN A; DNA; GAMMA SYNUCLEIN; HUMAN SERUM ALBUMIN; LYSOZYME; NUCLEIC ACID; POLYLYSINE; POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN; TRANSFER RNA;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BACTERIOPHAGE; BACTERIOPHAGE PH75; BETA SHEET; CHIRALITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; COWPEA MOSIAC VIRUS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; GEOMETRY; HYDRATION; MS2 VIRUS; NARCISSUS MOSAIC VIRUS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEIC ACID STRUCTURE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLARIZATION; POTATO VIRUS X; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RAMAN OPTICAL ACTIVITY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SATELLITE TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; TOBACCO MOSAIC VIRUS; VIBRATION; VIBRATIONAL SPECTROSCOPY; VIRUS; VIRUS MORPHOLOGY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037544390     PISSN: 07124813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1155/2003/787940     Document Type: Conference Paper

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