Removing an interhelical salt bridge abolishes coiled-coil formation in a de novo designed peptide

Journal of Structural Biology

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2002, Pages 65-72

  Meier, Markus ^a   Lustig, Ariel ^a   Aebi, Ueli ^a   Burkhard, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Coiled coil; Ionic interactions; Protein de novo design; Protein folding; Protein oligomerization

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; ARGININE; GLUTAMIC ACID; ION; PEPTIDE DERIVATIVE; SUCCINYLASPARTYLGLUTAMYLLEUCYLGLUTAMYLARGINYLALANYLISOLEUCYLARGINYLGLUTAMYL LEUCYLALANYLALANYLARGINYLISOLEUCYLLYSINAMIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SUBSTITUTION; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFERENCE PAPER; METHODOLOGY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

EID: 18744408439     PISSN: 10478477     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jsbi.2002.4467     Document Type: Conference Paper

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