Structural biology: A century-long journey into an unseen world

Interdisciplinary Science Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 308-328

  Curry, Stephen ^a  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biological macromolecules; Electron microscopy; Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Solution scattering; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL ATOMIC STRUCTURE; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROMETERS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULES; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; SELF ASSEMBLY; X RAY DIFFRACTION ANALYSIS;

ATOMIC ARCHITECTURE; BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULE; COMPLEX MOLECULES; MOLECULAR BASIS; MOLECULAR COMPLEXITY; PROTEIN MOLECULES; SOLUTION SCATTERINGS; STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY;

X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 84948970906     PISSN: 03080188     EISSN: 17432790     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1179/0308018815Z.000000000120     Document Type: Article

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