Subtle differences in structural transitions between poly-l- and poly-d-amino acids of equal length in water

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 333-339

  Scolnik, Yosef ^a   Portnaya, Irina ^b   Cogan, Uri ^b   Tal, Saar ^a   Haimovitz, Rachel ^a   Fridkin, Mati ^a   Elitzur, Avshalom C ^c   Deamer, David W ^d   Shinitzky, Meir ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; POLYLYSINE; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; SOLUBILITY; STEREOISOMERISM;

CALORIMETRY, DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MOLECULAR CONFORMATION; POLYGLUTAMIC ACID; POLYLYSINE; SOLUBILITY; STEREOISOMERISM; WATER;

EID: 33645460849     PISSN: 14639076     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1039/b513974k     Document Type: Article

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