The role of proline and glycine in determining the backbone flexibility of a channel-forming peptide

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 76, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 1367-1376

  Jacob, Jaison ^a   Duclohier, Herve ^b   Cafiso, David S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE ROUEN   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALAMETHICIN; GLYCINE; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; PROLINE; VOLTAGE GATED CHANNEL FORMING PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HYDROGEN BOND; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; SPIN LABELING;

EID: 0033020966     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-3495(99)77298-X     Document Type: Article

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