A Comparative Analysis of Interhelical Polar Interactions of Various α-Helix Packings in Proteins

Molecular Biology

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 440-445

  Efimov, A V ^a   Kondratova, M S ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PROTEIN RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Hydrogen bond; Packing of helices; Salt bridge

Indexed keywords

GLOBULAR PROTEIN; HYDROGEN; LEUCINE ZIPPER PROTEIN;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL BOND; COMPARATIVE STUDY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN PROCESSING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0038124516     PISSN: 00268933     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1024299629832     Document Type: Article

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