Protein-nucleic acid complexes and the role of mass spectrometry in their structure determination

Critical Reviews in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 152-164

  Park, Ah Young ^a   Robinson, Carol V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

collision cross section; hybrid structure determination; ion mobility mass spectrometry; Mass spectrometry; structural biology

Indexed keywords

NUCLEIC ACID; RNA POLYMERASE;

DYNAMICS; HUMAN; ION MOBILITY SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STOICHIOMETRY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PROTEINS;

EID: 79952980494     PISSN: 10409238     EISSN: 15497798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10409238.2011.559451     Document Type: Review

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