Spontaneous assembly of a self-complementary oligopeptide to form a stable macroscopic membrane

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 90, Issue 8, 1993, Pages 3334-3338

  Zhang, Shuguang ^a   Holmes, Todd ^a   Lockshin, Curtis ^a   Rich, Alexander ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Insoluble filaments; Ionic bonds; Origin of life; Zuotin; sheet

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMIC ACID; GUANIDINE; LYSINE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; PROTEINASE; UREA;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MEMBRANE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-20; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMYLOID; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MEMBRANES, ARTIFICIAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; SUBSTANCE P; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.;

EID: 0027416047     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.8.3334     Document Type: Article

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