Coiled-coil assembly by peptides with non-heptad sequence motifs

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 149-158

  Hicks, Matthew R ^a   Holberton, David V ^b   Kowalczyk, Christopher ^a   Woolfson, Derek N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Hendecad; Peptide models; Protein folding; Protein structure; Undecatad

Indexed keywords

CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; PEPTIDE; PROTOZOAL PROTEIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; DIMERIZATION; GENETICS; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEOTIDE REPEAT; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONSENSUS SEQUENCE; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DIMERIZATION; GIARDIA LAMBLIA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTOZOAN PROTEINS; REPETITIVE SEQUENCES, NUCLEIC ACID;

EID: 0030624409     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00021-7     Document Type: Article

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