Unfolded State of Polyalanine Is a Segmented Polyproline II Helix

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 493-501

  Kentsis, Alex ^a   Mezei, Mihaly ^a   Gindin, Tatyana ^a   Osman, Roman ^a  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Hierarchical organization; Protein folding; Search nucleation; Unfolded state preorganization

Indexed keywords

ALANINE DERIVATIVE; POLYALANINE; POLYPROLINE; PROLINE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALGORITHM; ALPHA HELIX; AQUEOUS SOLUTION; ARTICLE; CONFORMATION; DIFFUSION; DNA HELIX; FLORY RANDOM COIL MODEL; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SOLVATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENTROPY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY;

EID: 1842500993     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20051     Document Type: Article

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