Conformational properties of four peptides spanning the sequence of hen lysozyme

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 252, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 483-491

  Yang, Jenny J ^a   Buck, Matthias ^a,c   Pitkeathly, Maureen ^a   Kotik, Michael ^a,b   Haynie, Donald T ^a   Dobson, Christopher M ^a   Radford, Sheena E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Disulphides; Folding initiation sites; Synthetic peptide; Trifluoroethanol

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029092697     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1995.0513     Document Type: Article

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