The T-Knot motif revisited

Biological Chemistry

Volumn 380, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1247-1250

  Polticelli, Fabio ^a,b   Pascarella, Stefano ^c   Bordo, Domenico ^d   Bolognesi, Martino ^d   Ascenzi, Paolo ^a  

^a ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cystine knot; Disulphide bridges; T knot scaffold

Indexed keywords

DISULFIDE;

ARTICLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANTICOAGULANTS; DISULFIDES; EPIDERMAL GROWTH FACTOR; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MOLLUSK VENOMS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY, AMINO ACID; SPIDER VENOMS;

EID: 0032727689     PISSN: 14316730     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/BC.1999.159     Document Type: Article

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