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The aim of this chapter is to provide information on the practical aspects of circular dichroism (CD) and synchrotron radiation circular dichroism (SRCD) in protein–nucleic acids interaction solution studies. The chapter will describe the guidelines appropriate to designing experiments and conducting correct data interpretation, the use of both benchtop and synchrotron CD approaches is discussed and the advantages of SRCD outlined. Further information and a good general review of the field a can be found in Gray (Circular Dichroism of protein–nucleic acid interactions. In: Fasman GD (ed) Circular dichroism and the conformational analysis of biomolecules. Plenum Press, New York. pp 469–500, 1996).
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Scarlett, G., Siligardi, G., Kneale, G.G. (2015). Circular Dichroism for the Analysis of Protein–DNA Interactions. In: Leblanc, B., Rodrigue, S. (eds) DNA-Protein Interactions. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1334. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-2877-4_19
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