High-pressure protein crystallography and NMR to explore protein conformations

Annual Review of Biophysics

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 81-98

  Collins, Marcus D ^a   Kim, Chae Un ^b   Gruner, Sol M ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c Cornell University   (United States)

Author keywords

conformational substates; energy landscape; pressure cryocooling; protein thermodynamics

Indexed keywords

BERYLLIUM; DIAMOND; DIHYDROFOLATE REDUCTASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; HISTIDINE; LIQUID NITROGEN; MYOGLOBIN; UBIQUITIN; URATE OXIDASE;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; HETERONUCLEAR SINGLE QUANTUM COHERENCE; HYDROPHOBICITY; HYPERBARISM; LIGHT ABSORPTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RADIATION SCATTERING; THERMODYNAMICS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRESSURE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 79955806443     PISSN: 1936122X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biophys-042910-155304     Document Type: Article

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