Why Are Both Ends of the Polypeptide Chain on the Outside of Proteins?

Proteins: Structure, Function and Genetics

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 219-222

  Hovmöller, Sven ^a   Zhou, Tuping ^a  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Gripping; N terminal; Polypeptide chain; Ribosome

Indexed keywords

POLYPEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PARKINSON DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN AGGREGATION; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECRETION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RIBOSOME;

ALKYL AND ARYL TRANSFERASES; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; HUMANS; HYDROPHOBICITY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEINS; SOFTWARE;

EID: 1842532186     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20011     Document Type: Article

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