Structure and behaviour of biomolecules from Raman optical activity

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 638-643

  Barron, Laurence D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBOHYDRATE; GLYCOPROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; BETA SHEET; CARBOHYDRATE ANALYSIS; CHIRALITY; LIGHT SCATTERING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTUM CHEMISTRY; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; CARBOHYDRATE METABOLISM; CARBOHYDRATES; HUMANS; PEPTIDES; PROTEINS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 33749057923     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2006.08.004     Document Type: Review

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