The lubricant of life: A proposal that solvent water promotes extremely fast conformational fluctuations in mobile heteropolypeptide structure

Biochemistry

Volumn 36, Issue 43, 1997, Pages 13143-13147

  Barron, Laurence D ^a   Hecht, Lutz ^a   Wilson, Gary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT; WATER;

HYDROGEN BOND; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; WATER ANALYSIS;

PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SOLVENTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; WATER;

EID: 0030853055     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi971323j     Document Type: Review

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