pH dependence of amide chemical shifts in natively disordered polypeptides detects medium-range interactions with ionizable residues

Biophysical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3293-3302

  Pujato, Mario ^a   Bracken, Clay ^b   Mancusso, Romina ^a   Cataldi, Marcela ^a   Tasayco, María Luisa ^a  

^a CITY COLLEGE OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; ASPARTIC ACID; CARBOXYL GROUP; GLUTAMIC ACID; POLYPEPTIDE; TETRAPEPTIDE; THIOREDOXIN;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HYDROGEN BOND; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PH; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; QUANTUM MECHANICS; SOLVATION;

ESCHERICHIA COLI;

EID: 27744450628     PISSN: 00063495     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1529/biophysj.105.060384     Document Type: Article

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