Circular dichroism spectra of β-peptides: Sensitivity to molecular structure and effects of motional averaging

European Biophysics Journal

Volumn 32, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 661-670

  Daura, Xavier ^a,c   Bakowies, Dirk ^a   Seebach, Dieter ^a   Fleischhauer, Jörg ^b   Van Gunsteren, Wilfred F ^a   Krüger, Peter ^a,b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Circular dichroism; Cluster analysis; Computer simulation; Molecular dynamics; Peptide folding

Indexed keywords

HEPTAPEPTIDE; METHANOL; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOTION; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0347363561     PISSN: 01757571     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00249-003-0303-1     Document Type: Article

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