The role of the turn in β-hairpin formation during WW domain folding

Protein Science

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 2233-2239

  Sharpe, Tim ^a   Jonsson, Amanda L ^b   Rutherford, Trevor J ^a   Daggett, Valerie ^b   Fersht, Alan R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Computational analysis of protein structure; NMR spectroscopy; Protein structure folding

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN; SOLVENT;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CONFORMATIONAL TRANSITION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN FOLDING; RESIDUE ANALYSIS;

HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY;

EID: 34748919075     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1110/ps.073004907     Document Type: Article

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