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Studies of Small Biological Molecules

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In this chapter, the interactions of small molecules with proteins are discussed in terms of different experimental methods with examples. The last section describes examples to study metabolic pathways using NMR experiments. Key questions to be answered include:

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Teng, Q. (2013). Studies of Small Biological Molecules. In: Structural Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3964-6_6

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