Proteins in action: The physics of structural fluctuations and conformational changes

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 552-557

  Parak, Fritz G ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ANALYTIC METHOD; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DENSITY; EXPERIMENT; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LOW TEMPERATURE PROCEDURES; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOSSBAUER SPECTROSCOPY; NEUTRON SCATTERING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION; REVIEW; SOLID STATE; SPECTRUM; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYNCHROTRON; TIME; X RAY ANALYSIS;

EID: 0141918782     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2003.09.004     Document Type: Review

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