Contribution of the hydrophobicity gradient to the secondary structure and activity of fusogenic peptides

Molecular Membrane Biology

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 237-246

  Decout, Anne ^a   Labeur, Christine ^a   Vanloo, Berlinda ^a   Goethals, Marc ^b   Vandekerckhove, Joel ^b   Brasseur, Robert ^c   Rosseneu, Maryvonne ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PLANT SYSTEMS BIOLOGY   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Fusion; Hydrophobicity gradient; Infrared spectroscopy; Peptides; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

APOLIPOPROTEIN A2; FLUORESCENT DYE; MEMBRANE LIPID; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE STEROL ACYLTRANSFERASE; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; HYDROPHOBICITY; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MEMBRANE; MEMBRANE FUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN LIPID INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; LIPID BILAYERS; MEMBRANE LIPIDS; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHOSPHATIDYLCHOLINE-STEROL O-ACYLTRANSFERASE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0032821857     PISSN: 09687688     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/096876899294553     Document Type: Article

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