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ArticleBiophysical journal2016

Classic Analysis of Biopolymer Dynamics Is Model Free.

R Bryn Fenwick, H Jane Dyson

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Article in Biophysical journal, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

R Bryn FenwickDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology MB202, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: fenwick@scripps.edu.
H Jane DysonDepartment of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology MB202, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California. Electronic address: dyson@scripps.edu.

Funding

Protein Dynamics in Dihydrofolate Reductase CatalysisR01GM075995 · NIGMS · SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE, THE · PI WRIGHT, PETER EDWIN · 2006 to 2021
$6.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM75995NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM075995
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Early analysis of biopolymer dynamics relied on a variety of motional models that were difficult to distinguish and sometimes gave contradictory results. The Lipari-Szabo model-free approach (documented in a 1980 article in Biophysical Journal, as well as in two more comprehensive 1982 articles in the Journal of the American Chemical Society, provided a simple formalism that allowed investigators to understand fluorescence and NMR experimental data without having to specify a motional model. Although the model-free method is not universally applicable (for example, its assumption of a uniform correlation time for overall molecular tumbling can be problematic for biomolecules containing areas of disorder), it remains the most popular and widely used technique for analyzing molecular motion.

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Models, MolecularBiopolymersMolecular ConformationMovementBiopolymers

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PMID26745403
PMCPMC4805862

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