Protein and peptide secondary structure and conformational determination with vibrational circular dichroism

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 682-688

  Keiderling, Timothy A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

AB INITIO CALCULATION; ALPHA HELIX; BETA SHEET; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELECTRONICS; EMPIRICISM; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; INSTRUMENTATION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; PEPTIDE ANALYSIS; PREDICTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SIMULATION; THEORETICAL STUDY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; VIBRATION;

EID: 0036802313     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(02)00369-1     Document Type: Review

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