De novo design and structural analysis of a model β-hairpin peptide system

Nature Structural Biology

Volumn 3, Issue 7, 1996, Pages 604-612

  Ramírez Alvarado, Marina ^a   Blanco, Francisco J ^a   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN ENGINEERING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 0029891313     PISSN: 10728368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nsb0796-604     Document Type: Article

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