Well-defined secondary structures: Information-storing molecular duplexes and helical foldamers based on unnatural peptide backbones

European Journal of Biochemistry

Volumn 271, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 1416-1425

  Sanford, Adam R ^a   Yamato, Kazuhiro ^a   Yang, Xiaowu ^a   Yuan, Lihua ^a   Han, Yaohua ^a   Gong, Bing ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Backbone rigidification; Duplex; Foldamer; Folding helix; Hydrogen bond; Nanocavity; Noncovalent; Self assembly; Template

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC POLYAMIDE; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; COPOLYMER; NANOPARTICLE; OLIGOMER; PEPTIDE; UREA DERIVATIVE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BETA SHEET; COVALENT BOND; HYDROGEN BOND; POLYMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ASSEMBLY; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN CROSS LINKING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; REVIEW; RIGIDITY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SUPRAMOLECULAR CHEMISTRY;

BIOPOLYMERS; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; NANOTECHNOLOGY; PEPTIDES;

EID: 2142642260     PISSN: 00142956     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1432-1033.2004.04062.x     Document Type: Review

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