Amino acid propensities are position-dependent throughout the length of α-helices

Journal of Molecular Biology

Volumn 337, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1195-1205

  Engel, Donald E ^a   DeGrado, William F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

de novo design; Fractional solvent accessibility; Helix capping; Hydrophobicity; Position dependent propensity

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN STRUCTURE;

EID: 1842523274     PISSN: 00222836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2004.02.004     Document Type: Article

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