Limited tendency of α-helical residues to form disulfide bridges: A structural explanation

Journal of Peptide Science

Volumn 12, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 740-747

  De Simone, Alfonso ^a   Berisio, Rita ^b,c   Zagari, Adriana ^a,b   Vitagliano, Luigi ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca Sui Peptidi Bioattivi (CIRPEB)   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data mining; Disulfide bridges; Protein and peptide structure; Protein Data Bank; Statistics

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; CYSTEINE; DISULFIDE; POLYPEPTIDE;

ALPHA CHAIN; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA CHAIN; DISULFIDE BOND; INFORMATION PROCESSING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DATA BANK; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; STRUCTURAL PROTEOMICS;

CYSTEINE; DATABASES, PROTEIN; DISULFIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 33845618043     PISSN: 10752617     EISSN: 10991387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psc.809     Document Type: Article

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