Design of two-helix motifs in peptides: Crystal structure of a system of linked helices of opposite chirality and a model helix-linker peptide

Folding and Design

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 203-210

  Karle, Isabella L ^a   Banerjee, Arindam ^b   Balaram, Padmanabhan ^b  

^a NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Aib peptides; Left and right handed peptide helices; Linker displaced helices; Supramolecular assembly; aminocaproic acid peptides

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HELIX-LOOP-HELIX MOTIFS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, CHEMICAL; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0030634085     PISSN: 13590278     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-0278(97)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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