Describing intrinsically disordered proteins at atomic resolution by NMR

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 426-435

  Jensen, Malene Ringkjøbing ^a   Ruigrok, Rob WH ^b   Blackledge, Martin ^a  

^a CEA GRENOBLE   (France)

^b EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN; PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BIOPHYSICS; CALIBRATION; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING;

EID: 84879177976     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: 1879033X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2013.02.007     Document Type: Review

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