A tale of two secondary structure elements: When a β-hairpin becomes an α-helix

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 292, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 389-401

  Cregut, David ^a   Civera, Concepcion ^b   MacIas, Maria J ^a   Wallon, Gerlind ^a   Serrano, Luis ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

GB1 domain; Kinetics; Protein folding; Protein stability; Secondary structure

Indexed keywords

GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE BINDING PROTEIN; MUTANT PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE;

EID: 0033578940     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.1999.2966     Document Type: Article

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