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circular dichroism
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Circular dichroism (CD) is a technology for assessing interactions of chiral molecules with circularly polarized electromagnetic rays. Secondary and tertiary structure of proteins will impart a distinct CD to that molecule allowing the use of CD to examine the protein folding under different conditions. Information about conformational properties of nucleic acids can be obtained by CD spectroscopy.
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Label
circular dichroism
Synonyms
- CD