Probing protein structure and folding in the gas phase by electron capture dissociation

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 1059-1067

  Schennach, Moritz ^a   Breuker, Kathrin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Electron capture dissociation; Folding; Gas phase; Mass spectrometry; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DISSOCIATION; GASES; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEINS;

CONDENSED PHASIS; ELECTRON CAPTURE DISSOCIATION; FOLDING; GAS-PHASE EXPERIMENTS; GASPHASE; PROTEIN IONS; PROTEIN STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ELECTRON CAPTURE DETECTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; GAS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

GAS; ION; PROTEIN;

GASES; IONS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS;

EID: 84934903191     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-015-1088-z     Document Type: Article

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