Tests for helix‐stabilizing interactions between various nonpolar side chains in alanine‐based peptides

Protein Science

Volumn 3, Issue 11, 1994, Pages 1992-1997

  Padmanabhan, S ^a   Baldwin, Robert L ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acknowledgments; nonpolar interactions; peptide helices; side chain conformation; side chain interactions; helix stability

Indexed keywords

2 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ALANINE; NORLEUCINE; NORVALINE; SINGLE STRANDED DNA BINDING PROTEIN; TYROSINE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINOBUTYRIC ACIDS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NORLEUCINE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VALINE;

EID: 0028569692     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.5560031111     Document Type: Article

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