Conformational interconversions in peptide β-turns: Analysis of turns in proteins and computational estimates of barriers

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 284, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1505-1516

  Gunasekaran, K ^a   Gomathi, L ^a   Ramakrishnan, C ^a   Chandrasekhar, J ^a   Balaram, P ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Conformational interconversions; Energy barrier computation; Protein mobility; Protein structure analysis; turns

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPUTER ANALYSIS; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; DATA BASE; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0032545165     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1998.2154     Document Type: Article

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