Stable proline box motif at the N-terminal end of α-helices

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 1999, Pages 1733-1742

  Viguera, A R ^a,b   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b CSIC UPV Unidad de Biofisica UBF   (Spain)

Author keywords

Proline; Proline valine interaction; helix capping

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMINO ACID; GLYCINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; PROLINE; VALINE;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS;

EID: 0032846342     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.9.1733     Document Type: Article

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