Recent advances and applications of site-directed spin labeling

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 644-653

  Fanucci, Gail E ^a   Cafiso, David S ^b  

^a University of Florida ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; NITROXIDE; RETINA S ANTIGEN; RHODOPSIN;

BETA SHEET; BIOPHYSICS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SPIN LABELING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; CELL MEMBRANE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HUMANS; PROTEINS; SPIN LABELS; SPIN TRAPPING;

EID: 33749041288     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.08.008     Document Type: Review

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