X-rays in the Cryo-Electron Microscopy Era: Structural Biology's Dynamic Future

Biochemistry

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 277-285

  Shoemaker, Susannah C ^a   Ando, Nozomi ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPES; MACROMOLECULES; MEDICAL IMAGING; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CONFORMATIONAL HETEROGENEITY; CRYO-ELECTRON MICROSCOPIES (CRYO- EM); DYNAMIC INFORMATION; INDIVIDUAL STRENGTH; MACROMOLECULAR STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION; STRUCTURE DETERMINATION;

X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

HEAVY METAL; HEMOGLOBIN;

CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLIZATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; MACROMOLECULE; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RESPONSIBILITY; REVIEW; TEMPERATURE; THERMOPLASMA ACIDOPHILUM; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION; ALGORITHM; CHEMISTRY; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

ALGORITHMS; CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; MACROMOLECULAR SUBSTANCES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 85039074053     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: 15204995     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1021/acs.biochem.7b01031     Document Type: Review

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