Origins of helix - coil switching in a light-sensitive peptide

Biochemistry

Volumn 43, Issue 49, 2004, Pages 15329-15338

  Burns, Darcy C ^a   Flint, Daniel G ^d   Kumita, Janet R ^a   Feldman, Howard J ^b   Serrano, Luis ^c   Zhang, Zhihua ^a   Smart, Oliver S ^d   Woolley, G Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Blueprint Initiative   (Canada)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS; CONFORMATIONS; CROSSLINKING; ISOMERIZATION; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PHOTOSENSITIVITY;

DIIODOACETAMIDE-AZOBENZENE; PEPTIDES; PHOTOISOMERIZATION;

PROTEINS;

CYSTEINE; PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS LINKING; ISOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AZO COMPOUNDS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CROSS-LINKING REAGENTS; ISOMERISM; LIGHT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 10644224397     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi048152k     Document Type: Article

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