A practical guide to small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) of flexible and intrinsically disordered proteins

FEBS Letters

Volumn 589, Issue 19, 2015, Pages 2570-2577

  Kikhney, Alexey G ^a   Svergun, Dmitri I ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Disorder; Flexibility; Intrinsically disordered protein; Small angle scattering; Small angle X ray scattering

Indexed keywords

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN;

COMPUTER MODEL; HUMAN; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEVICES; PLIABILITY; PROCEDURES; SMALL ANGLE SCATTERING; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PLIABILITY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SCATTERING, SMALL ANGLE; X-RAY DIFFRACTION;

EID: 84942297359     PISSN: 00145793     EISSN: 18733468     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.febslet.2015.08.027     Document Type: Review

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