Structural Insights into Intrinsically Disordered Proteins by Small-Angle X-Ray Scattering

Instrumental Analysis of Intrinsically Disordered Proteins: Assessing Structure and Conformation

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 451-476

  Bernadó, Pau ^a   Svergun, Dmitri I ^b  

^a INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN BIOMEDICINE   (Spain)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Multiple SAXS curve fitting with EOM; Small angle X ray scattering (SAXS) overall solution structure and structural transitions of folded biologic macromolecules; Structural insights into intrinsically disordered proteins by small angle X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871665336     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470602614.ch16     Document Type: Chapter

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