Modern X-ray scattering studies of complex biological systems

Current Opinion in Biotechnology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 716-723

  Kornreich, M ^a   Avinery, R ^a   Beck, R ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; INTERACTION STUDIES; LOWER RESOLUTION; MONODISPERSITY; STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION; SURROUNDING ENVIRONMENT;

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; SCATTERING; X RAYS;

X RAY SCATTERING;

COMPLEX FORMATION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MICROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NANOBIOTECHNOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION ENERGY; RADIATION SCATTERING; RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE; REVIEW; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; SYSTEMS BIOLOGY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY FREE ELECTRON LASER;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION; YEASTS;

EID: 84880938796     PISSN: 09581669     EISSN: 18790429     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.copbio.2013.01.005     Document Type: Review

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