Engineering the gramicidin channel

Annual Review of Biophysics and Biomolecular Structure

Volumn 25, Issue , 1996, Pages 231-258

  Koeppe II, Roger E ^a   Andersen, Olaf S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

membrane channel; nongenetic amino acids; peptide conformation; protein design; protein folding; tryptophan; voltage dependence

Indexed keywords

GRAMICIDIN; GRAMICIDIN A; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CHANNEL GATING; MEMBRANE CHANNEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; REVIEW;

EID: 0029922798     PISSN: 10568700     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev.bb.25.060196.001311     Document Type: Review

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