Insights into biomolecular function from small-angle scattering.

Abstract:

:Recent advances in neutron and X-ray sources and instrumentation, new and improved scattering techniques, and molecular biology techniques, which have permitted facile preparation of samples, have each led to new opportunities in using small-angle scattering to study the conformations and interactions of biological macromolecules in solution as a function of their properties. For example, new instrumentation on synchrotron sources has facilitated time-resolved studies that yield insights into protein folding. More powerful neutron sources, combined with molecular biology tools that isotopically label samples, have facilitated studies of biomolecular interactions, including those involving active enzymes.

journal_name

Curr Opin Struct Biol

authors

Trewhella J

doi

10.1016/s0959-440x(97)80081-4

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

1997-10-01 00:00:00

pages

702-8

issue

5

eissn

0959-440X

issn

1879-033X

pii

S0959-440X(97)80081-4

journal_volume

7

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