Unusual conformations adopted by standard amino acids in Aib-containing oligopeptides

Zeitschrift fur Kristallographie

Volumn 212, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 819-825

  Gessmann R ^a   Kokkinidis, M ^a   Currle, M ^b   Bruckner H ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c JUSTUS LIEBIG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

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