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Damage to proteins due to the direct action of ionizing radiation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 March 2009

E. S. Kempner
E. S. Kempner
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National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD 20892, USA
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Proteins exposed to ionizing radiation suffer both reversible and irreversible effects. Reversible effects are defined as those which disappear in a short period of time after the removal of the radiation field and without further treatment of the sample. Irreversible effects are those which cause a permanent alteration in the structure of a protein.

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Quarterly Reviews of Biophysics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , February 1993 , pp. 27 - 48
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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