Autonomous folding of a peptide corresponding to the N-terminal β- hairpin from ubiquitin

Protein Science

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1320-1331

  Zerella, Rosa ^a   Evans, Philip A ^a,b   Ionides, John M C ^c   Packman, Len C ^b   Trotter, B Wesley ^a,d   Mackay, Joel P ^a,e   Williams, Dudley H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b Cambridge Ctr for Medical Materials   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC LABORATORY OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^d HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chemical shifts; Coupling constants; Peptide conformations; Ubiquitin; hairpin; sheet

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE;

EID: 0033028620     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.8.6.1320     Document Type: Article

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