The design of linear peptides that fold as monomeric β-sheet structures

Current Opinion in Structural Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 487-493

  Lacroix, Emmanuel ^a   Kortemme, Tanja ^a   Lopez de la Paz, Manuela ^a   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOMER; PEPTIDE;

ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA CHAIN; DATA BASE; HYDROGEN BOND; KINETICS; MUTAGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0033179059     PISSN: 0959440X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(99)80069-4     Document Type: Article

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