Dissection of Human Tropoelastin: Exon-By-Exon Chemical Synthesis and Related Conformational Studies

Biochemistry

Volumn 42, Issue 45, 2003, Pages 13347-13362

  Tamburro, Antonio M ^a   Bochicchio, Brigida ^a   Pepe, Antonietta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASILICATA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCONFORMATIONS;

AMINES; CONFORMATIONS; CROSSLINKING; ELASTICITY; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POLYPEPTIDES; PROTEINS; THERMAL EFFECTS;

BIOCHEMISTRY;

ELASTIN; PROLINE; TROPOELASTIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROSS LINKING; ELASTICITY; EXON; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; ELASTICITY; EXONS; GLYCINE; HUMANS; HYDROGEN BONDING; HYDROPHOBICITY; LYSINE; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROLINE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SOLUTIONS; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP; TROPOELASTIN; WATER;

EID: 0242499494     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi034837t     Document Type: Article

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