Long-range electron transfer in rigid 310-helical oligopeptides containing redox cyclic α-amino acids

Photochemistry and Photobiology

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 579-584

  Lang, Kamil ^a   Kuki, Atsuo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b AGOURON PHARMACEUTICALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 2 METHYLPROPIONIC ACID; 2-AMINOISOBUTYRIC ACID; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; IN VITRO STUDY; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE;

AMINOISOBUTYRIC ACIDS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGOPEPTIDES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 0033212526     PISSN: 00318655     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-1097.1999.tb08254.x     Document Type: Article

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