A short linear peptide that folds into a native stable β-hairpin in aqueous solution

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 1, Issue 9, 1994, Pages 584-590

  Blanco, Francisco J ^a   Rivas, Germán ^b   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOLÓGICAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; GEL CHROMATOGRAPHY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GEL; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SOLUTIONS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; WATER;

EID: 0028500779     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0994-584     Document Type: Article

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