Dried and Hydrated X-Ray Scattering Analysis of Amyloid Fibrils

Methods in Molecular Biology

Volumn 752, Issue , 2011, Pages 147-163

  Gras, Sally L ^b   Squires, Adam M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alignment; Analysis; Fibre diffraction; Hydrated; Software; WAXS; X ray

Indexed keywords

AMYLOID;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; DESICCATION; INSTRUMENTATION; METHODOLOGY; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

AMYLOID; DESICCATION; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 79960978027     PISSN: 10643745     EISSN: 19406029     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-60327-223-0_10     Document Type: Chapter

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