DETECTION OF PRIMARY AND SECONDARY CHIRAL STRUCTURES IN VIRUSES USING CIDS

Abstract

Author Institution: Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California; Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of California; Los Alamos National Laboratory, University of CaliforniaWe demonstrate that the angular distribution of circular intensity difference scattering (CIDS) has a superposition principle for scattering arising from primary and secondary helical structure in macromolecules. We use this principle to analyze the CIDS signal from viruses