Small-angle X-ray scattering from RNA, proteins, and protein complexes

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 36, Issue , 2007, Pages 307-327

  Lipfert, Jan ^a   Doniach, Sebastian ^a  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Membrane proteins; Molecular reconstruction; SAXS; Unfolded proteins

Indexed keywords

MEMBRANE PROTEIN; RNA;

ALGORITHM; COMPLEX FORMATION; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANIMALS; BIOPHYSICS; DETERGENTS; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MICELLES; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; PHOTONS; PROTEIN DENATURATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; RNA; SCATTERING, RADIATION; X-RAYS;

EID: 34249894142     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.biophys.36.040306.132655     Document Type: Review

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