Plasticity of secondary structure in the N-terminal region of β-dystroglycan

Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Protein Structure and Molecular Enzymology

Volumn 1546, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 114-121

  Boffi, Alberto ^a   Bozzi, Manuela ^b   Sciandra, Francesca ^c   Woellner, Cristina ^c,d   Bigotti, Maria Giulia ^a   Ilari, Andrea ^a   Brancaccio, Andrea ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^c CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism spectroscopy; Dystroglycan; Infrared spectroscopy; Natively unfolded protein; Secondary structure determination

Indexed keywords

DYSTROGLYCAN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PLASTICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; DYSTROGLYCANS; DYSTROPHIN; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 0035831251     PISSN: 01674838     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-4838(01)00131-5     Document Type: Article

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