Centre for Protein and Membrane Structure and Dynamics
| Name: | Centre for Protein and Membrane Structure and Dynamics |
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| Link: | http://www.srs.dl.ac.uk/VUV/CD/cpmsd.html |
| Description: | The Centre for Protein and Membrane Structure and Dynamics (CPMSD) is one of only six Structural Biology Centres established by the BBSRC as part of its framework of support for structual biology in the UK. This will be a virtual centre linking UK researchers who use ultraviolet circular dichroism. The heart of the centre is a new beamline on the Synchrotron Radiation Source at CLRC Daresbury Laboratory for the collection of rapid kinetic and steady state vacuum-ultraviolet and deep-ultraviolet CD spectra. This beamline provides many orders of magnitude more photon flux than conventional CD instruments. The advantages of Synchrotron Radiation as a light source for CD have been demonstrated by data from the existing facilities on the SRS, and the new station will allow the full exploitation of SRCD for the first time |
