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BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY
Volume 391, Issue 7, Pages 737-743Publisher
WALTER DE GRUYTER & CO
DOI: 10.1515/BC.2010.093
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ab initio methods; flexible macromolecules; hierarchical systems; macromolecular structure; rigid body modelling; solution scattering
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- HFSP [RGP0055/2006-C]
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Small-angle scattering (SAS) of X-rays and neutrons reveals low-resolution structures of biological macromolecules in solution. With the recent experimental and methodological advances. SAS became a unique tool for characterising biological systems. The method covers an extremely broad range of molecule sizes (from a few kDa to hundreds of MDa) and experimental conditions (temperature, pH, salinity, ligand addition, etc.), which is of primary importance for a systemic approach in structural biology. The method provides unique information about the overall structure and conformational changes of native individual proteins, functional complexes, flexible macromolecules and hierarchical systems. New developments in small-angle X-ray and neutron scattering studies of biological macromolecules in solution are briefly reviewed, with a special emphasis on technical and methodological approaches useful for structural systems biology. Possibilities of synergistic use of the method with other techniques are considered.
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