Structure and flexibility of individual immunoglobulin G molecules in solution

Structure

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 409-415

  Sandin, Sara ^a   Öfverstedt, Lars Göran ^a   Wikström, Ann Charlotte ^a,b   Wrange, Örjan ^a   Skoglund, Ulf ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; PARAPROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 1542393385     PISSN: 09692126     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2004.02.011     Document Type: Article

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