Determination of conformationally heterogeneous states of proteins

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 15-20

  Vendruscolo, Michele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ACCURACY; ANALYTIC METHOD; EXPERIMENTATION; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN POLYMORPHISM; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; SAMPLING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 33846939583     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2007.01.002     Document Type: Review

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