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Optical Rotation
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Activity, Optical
, OPTICAL ACTIVITY
, Rotation, Optical
The ability of a chiral substance to rotate the plane of polarization of a beam of transmitted plane-polarized light, either clockwise (to the right…
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Optical Rotatory Dispersion
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optical polarization
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
Residual structure in unfolded proteins revealed by Raman optical activity.
G. Wilson
,
L. Hecht
,
L. Barron
Biochemistry
1996
Corpus ID: 19253519
Because of its ability to probe directly the chiral elements of the peptide backbone, together with the very short time scale of…
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Highly Cited
1976
Highly Cited
1976
Reexamination of the conformation of muscle proteins by optical activity.
Cheun-Shang C. Wu
,
Jen-Tsi Yang
Biochemistry
1976
Corpus ID: 43110935
The circular dichroism and optical rotatory dispersion of muscle proteins are reexamined. By the method of Chen et al. (Chen, Y.H…
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1970
1970
Studies on adrenal steroid hydroxylases. Extrinsic properties of the optical activity in adrenal iron-sulfur protein (adrenodoxin).
R. Padmanabhan
,
Tokuji Kimura
Journal of Biological Chemistry
1970
Corpus ID: 20077091
Abstract Treatment of adrenal iron-sulfur protein (adrenodoxin) with urea and guanidine HCl results in a deterioration reaction…
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1970
1970
Optical activity of bovine neurophysins and their peptide complexes in the near ultraviolet.
E. Breslow
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1970
Corpus ID: 24698922
Circular dichroism studies of the bovine neurophysins in the near ultraviolet show a strong negative band at 280 nm and a strong…
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1969
1969
The influence of tertiary structure upon the optical activity of three globular proteins: myoglobin, hemoglobin and lysozyme.
Strauss Jh
,
Gordon As
,
W. Df
1969
Corpus ID: 88847990
Review
1968
Review
1968
Rotatory dispersion and circular dichroism.
S. Beychok
Annual Review of Biochemistry
1968
Corpus ID: 35093991
This article presents a brief review of several recent papers dealing with optical activity of nucleic acids, proteins…
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1968
1968
Vicinal effects on the optical activity of some adenine nucleosides.
D. Miles
,
Sang J. Hahn
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R. K. Robins
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M. J. Robins
,
Henry Erying
Journal of Physical Chemistry A
1968
Corpus ID: 45916739
Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Structure and optical activity of the DNA–aminoacridine complex
B. J. Gardner
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S. Mason
Biopolymers
1967
Corpus ID: 27092777
The electronic absorption and circular dichroism spectra of the DNA‐acridine orange complex have been measured over a range of…
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Highly Cited
1967
Highly Cited
1967
Optical activity of single-strand oligonucleotides.
C. Bush
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J. Brahms
Journal of Chemical Physics
1967
Corpus ID: 28294741
The circular‐dichroism (CD) spectra of several dinucleoside phosphates containing guanine and cytosine in aqueous solution at −17…
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1955
1955
Optical Rotation and Polypeptide Chain Configuration in Proteins
C. Cohen
Nature
1955
Corpus ID: 4208027
OBSERVATIONS on the optical rotation of collagen and gelatin1, together with consideration of polarimetric data reported in the…
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