Local interactions in a Schellman motif dictate interhelical arrangement in a protein fragment

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 211-222

  Sukumar, Muppalla ^a   Gierasch, Lila M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding motif; Peptide conformation; Protein folding; Protein structure

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; MOLECULAR GENETICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0030631229     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00030-8     Document Type: Article

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