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Tritium planigraphy: A tool for studying the spatial structure of proteins and their complexes

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The review is devoted to tritium planigraphy and its applications in solving a broad scope of problems in modern molecular and physicochemical biology. The method is based on nonselective substitution of tritium for hydrogen in the hydrocarbon parts of target molecules. It furnishes information on the steric accessibility of the components of a system under study (macromolecule within a complex amino acid residues, and even separate atomic groupings in a macromolecule) that characterizes the structure of the entire object. The technique is applicable to specimens in different phase states and has no limitations in respect of the target molecular mass. Tritium planigraphy is especially important in the cases when the biological macromolecules cannot be examined by the conventional methods (X-ray analysis and NMR spectroscopy). The review summarizes the studies of protein accessible surface and spatial arrangement, and outlines the approaches to modeling the protein 3D structure and probing into the spatial organization of theEscherichia coli ribosome and virus particles.

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Bogacheva, E.N., Shishkov, A.B. Tritium planigraphy: A tool for studying the spatial structure of proteins and their complexes. Mol Biol 34, 712–723 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02759613

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