Generalized Crick equations for modeling noncanonical coiled coils

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 41-53

  Offer, Gerald ^a   Hicks, Matthew R ^b   Woolfson, Derek N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

GrpE; Hemagglutinin; Hendecad; Heptad; Modeling; Pitch; Structure prediction; Tetrabrachion; Tilt angle; helical coiled coil

Indexed keywords

BACTERIAL PROTEIN; HEMAGGLUTININ; PROTEIN DERIVATIVE; PROTEIN GRPE; TETRABRACHION; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ATOM; CONFERENCE PAPER; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; TILTING;

EID: 0036444017     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2002.4448     Document Type: Conference Paper

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