Experimental and computational studies of determinants of membrane-protein folding

Current Opinion in Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 878-884

  Liang, Jie ^a  

^a University of Illinois at Chicago   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIX LOOP HELIX PROTEIN; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; AMINO ACID;

EXPERIMENT; HYDROGEN BOND; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; REVIEW; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

AMINO ACID MOTIFS; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO ACIDS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036899035     PISSN: 13675931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1367-5931(02)00393-9     Document Type: Review

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