The effects of calcium ions on double helical forms of gramicidin

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 299-306

  Chen, Y ^a,b   Wallace, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism spectroscopy; Divalent cations; Ion binding; NMR

Indexed keywords

CALCIUM; CESIUM; GRAMICIDIN;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; DNA HELIX; DNA STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

CALCIUM; CATIONS, DIVALENT; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DIMERIZATION; GRAMICIDIN; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION;

EID: 0030772759     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002490050084     Document Type: Article

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