Experimental approaches for solution X-ray scattering and fiber diffraction

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 601-608

  Tsuruta, H ^a   Irving, TC ^b  

^a SLAC NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Illinois Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID;

EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; MACROMOLECULE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION SCATTERING; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; SYNCHROTRON; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ANIMALS; CONNECTIVE TISSUE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DROSOPHILA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; NEUTRONS; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PHARMACEUTICAL SOLUTIONS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SOLUTIONS; SYNCHROTRONS; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 53249132537     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2008.08.002     Document Type: Review

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