Putative bioactive conformations of amide linked cyclic myelin basic protein peptide analogues associated with experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Volumn 50, Issue 24, 2007, Pages 6039-6047

  Spyranti, Zinovia ^a   Dalkas, Georgios A ^a   Spyroulias, Georgios A ^a   Mantzourani, Efthimia D ^a,b   Mavromoustakos, Thomas ^b   Friligou, Irene ^a   Matsoukas, John M ^a   Tselios, Theodore V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; CYCLOPEPTIDE; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ALLERGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CARBON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; COMPLEX FORMATION; DRUG CONFORMATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; MOLECULAR MODEL; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PHARMACOPHORE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

CYCLIZATION; DEUTERIUM; DIMETHYL SULFOXIDE; ENCEPHALOMYELITIS, AUTOIMMUNE, EXPERIMENTAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUTIONS;

EID: 37849037724     PISSN: 00222623     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/jm070770m     Document Type: Article

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