Anhydrous Protein Ions
Chemical ReviewsPublished 25 September 1999
Cherokee S. Hoaglund‐Hyzer, Anne E. Counterman, David E. Clemmer
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Studies of biomolecular ions in the gas phase provide information about the nature of conformation in the absence of solvent; thus, the roles of intramolecular interactions and solvent can be discerned by comparison of similarities between gas and solutionphase structure.
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ADVERTISEMENT RETURN TO ISSUEPREVArticleNEXTAnhydrous Protein IonsCherokee S. Hoaglund-Hyzer, Anne E. Counterman, and David E. ClemmerView Author Information Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Cite this: Chem. Rev. 1999, 99, 10, 3037–3080Publication Date (Web):September 25, 1999Publication History Received2 February 1999Revised9 June 1999Published online25 September 1999Published inissue 13 October 1999https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/cr980139ghttps://doi.org/10.1021/cr980139gresearch-articleACS PublicationsCopyright © 1999 American Chemical SocietyRequest reuse permissionsArticle Views997Altmetric-Citations286LEARN ABOUT THESE METRICSArticle Views are the COUNTER-compliant sum of full text article downloads since November 2008 (both PDF and HTML) across all institutions and individuals. These metrics are regularly updated to reflect usage leading up to the last few days.Citations are the number of other articles citing this article, calculated by Crossref and updated daily. Find more information about Crossref citation counts.The Altmetric Attention Score is a quantitative measure of the attention that a research article has received online. Clicking on the donut icon will load a page at altmetric.com with additional details about the score and the social media presence for the given article. Find more information on the Altmetric Attention Score and how the score is calculated. Share Add toView InAdd Full Text with ReferenceAdd Description ExportRISCitationCitation and abstractCitation and referencesMore Options Share onFacebookTwitterWechatLinked InRedditEmail Other access optionsGet e-Alertsclose SUBJECTS:Conformation,Ions,Molecular structure,Monomers,Peptides and proteins Get e-Alerts
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