Structure and dynamics of a conformationally constrained nitroxide side chain and applications in EPR spectroscopy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 39, 2011, Pages 16241-16246

  Fleissner, Mark R ^a   Bridges, Michael D ^a   Brooks, Evan K ^a   Cascio, Duilio ^b   Kálai, Tamás ^c   Hideg, Kálmán ^c   Hubbell, Wayne L ^a  

^a JULES STEIN EYE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Protein dynamics; Pulsed EPR

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; LYSOZYME; NITROXIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CROSS LINKING; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; ELECTRON NUCLEAR DOUBLE RESONANCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SPIN LABELING;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NITROGEN OXIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 80053650255     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1111420108     Document Type: Article

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