Hydrophobic interactions at the Ccap position of the C-capping motif of α-helices

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 322, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 123-135

  Ermolenko, Dmitri N ^a,b   Thomas, Susan T ^a,e   Aurora, Rajeev ^c   Gronenborn, Angela M ^d   Makhatadze, George I ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BACH INSTITUTE OF BIOCHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^c Computational Biology Grp P C ^*  (United States)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF DIABETES AND DIGESTIVE AND KIDNEY DISEASES   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

C capping motifs; Differential scanning calorimetry; Helix termination; Hydrophobic interactions; Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

ARGININE; ASPARAGINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CYCLOHEXANE; GLUTAMINE; GLYCINE; HISTIDINE; HYDROGEN; LYSINE; OCTANOL; SERINE; THREONINE; UBIQUITIN; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; ATOMIC PARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL MODEL; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA BASE; ENERGY TRANSFER; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTEIN VARIANT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE PROPERTY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0036971209     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00734-9     Document Type: Article

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