The role of helix formation in the folding of a fully α-helical coiled coil

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 427-432

  Sosnick, Tobin R ^a   Jackson, Sharon ^b   Wilk, Rosemarie R ^b   Englander, S Walter ^a   DeGrado, William F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

folding kinetics; GCN4; helix formation; protein folding

Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; ARTICLE; COMPLEX FORMATION; GENETIC STABILITY; KINETICS; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; KINETICS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0029990293     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0134(199604)24:4<427::AID-PROT2>3.0.CO;2-B     Document Type: Article

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