Using an azobenzene cross-linker to either increase or decrease peptide helix content upon Trans-to-cis photoisomerization

Chemistry and Biology

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 391-397

  Flint, Daniel G ^a   Kumita, Janet R ^b   Smart, Oliver S ^a   Woolley, G Andrew ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZO COMPOUND; AZOBENZENE; CROSS LINKING REAGENT; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

AZO COMPOUNDS; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0036009333     PISSN: 10745521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1074-5521(02)00109-6     Document Type: Article

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