Crosslinking and Mass Spectrometry: An Integrated Technology to Understand the Structure and Function of Molecular Machines

Trends in Biochemical Sciences

Volumn 41, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 20-32

  Leitner, Alexander ^a   Faini, Marco ^a   Stengel, Florian ^a,b   Aebersold, Ruedi ^a,c  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Chemical crosslinking; Hybrid structural biology; Mass spectrometry; Protein complexes

Indexed keywords

PROTEASOME; RNA POLYMERASE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; PROTEIN;

CHROMATIN ASSEMBLY AND DISASSEMBLY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOLECULAR MODEL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; REVIEW; RIBOSOME; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEINS;

EID: 84952639674     PISSN: 09680004     EISSN: 13624326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibs.2015.10.008     Document Type: Review

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