The interrelationships of side-chain and main-chain conformations in proteins

Progress in Biophysics and Molecular Biology

Volumn 76, Issue 1-2, 2001, Pages 1-102

  Chakrabarti, Pinak ^a   Pal, Debnath ^a  

^a BOSE INSTITUTE   (India)

Author keywords

Conformation; Polypeptide chain termini; Protein engineering; Protein folding; Residue flexibility; Secondary structure propensity; Thermostability

Indexed keywords

2 AMINO 2 METHYLPROPIONIC ACID; ALANINE; ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYSTEINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; LYSINE; METHIONINE; PEPTIDE; PHENYLALANINE; PROLINE; PROTEIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; SERINE; THREONINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TYROSINE; VALINE;

AMINO ACID COMPOSITION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA SHEET; GENETIC ENGINEERING; MUTATION; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RELIABILITY; RESIDUE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; RNA TRANSLATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION; THERMOSTABILITY; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

EID: 0034994293     PISSN: 00796107     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6107(01)00005-0     Document Type: Review

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