Conformational switching in designed peptides: The helix/sheet transition

Folding and Design

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 91-101

  Cerpa, Robert ^a   Cohen, Fred E ^a   Kuntz, Irwin D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Helix; Phenylazophenylalanine; Sheet; Switch peptide

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG DESIGN; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; SYNTHESIS; TEMPERATURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG DESIGN; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SOLUTIONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030342681     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(96)00018-1     Document Type: Article

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