Tracking the structural dynamics of proteins in solution using time-resolved wide-angle X-ray scattering

Nature Methods

Volumn 5, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 881-886

  Cammarata, Marco ^a,b   Levantino, Matteo ^c   Schotte, Friedrich ^d   Anfinrud, Philip A ^d   Ewald, Friederike ^a   Choi, Jungkweon ^e   Cupane, Antonio ^c   Wulff, Michael ^a   Ihee, Hyotcherl ^e  

^a EUROPEAN SYNCHROTRON RADIATION FACILITY   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^e Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C; HEMOGLOBIN; MYOGLOBIN;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; NONHUMAN; PHOTOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN QUATERNARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; CYTOCHROMES C; HEMOGLOBINS; MYOGLOBIN; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; X-RAYS;

EID: 53249113119     PISSN: 15487091     EISSN: 15491676     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nmeth.1255     Document Type: Article

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