Deviations from planarity of the peptide bond in peptides and proteins

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 264, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1180-1195

  MacArthur, Malcolm W ^a   Thornton, Janet M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chirality; Distortion; Distribution; Peptide bond; angles

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; DATA BASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0030596007     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1996.0705     Document Type: Article

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