Direct observation of the multistep helix formation of poly-L-glutamic acids

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 124, Issue 39, 2002, Pages 11596-11597

  Kimura, Tetsunari ^a   Takahashi, Satoshi ^a,b   Akiyama, Shuji ^a   Uzawa, Takanori ^a   Ishimori, Koichiro ^a   Morishima, Isao ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMIC ACID;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 0037009996     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja026639f     Document Type: Article

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