An Adequate Account of Excluded Volume Is Necessary to Infer Compactness and Asphericity of Disordered Proteins by Förster Resonance Energy Transfer

Journal of Physical Chemistry B

Volumn 119, Issue 49, 2015, Pages 15191-15202

  Song, Jianhui ^a   Gomes, Gregory Neal ^a   Gradinaru, Claudiu C ^a   Chan, Hue Sun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; CONFORMATIONS; ENERGY TRANSFER; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; X RAY SCATTERING;

CONFORMATIONAL ENSEMBLE; CYCLIN-DEPENDENT KINASE INHIBITORS; DATA INTERPRETATION; END-TO-END DISTANCES; GAUSSIAN CHAIN MODELS; HETEROGENEOUS ENSEMBLES; HYDRODYNAMIC RADIUS; RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER;

PROTEINS;

INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEIN;

CHEMISTRY; FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; PROCEDURES;

FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER; INTRINSICALLY DISORDERED PROTEINS;

EID: 84949551607     PISSN: 15206106     EISSN: 15205207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcb.5b09133     Document Type: Article

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