Computational and experimental determination of the α-helix unfolding reaction coordinate

Biochemistry

Volumn 47, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 2046-2050

  Asciutto, Eliana K ^a   Mikhonin, Aleksandr V ^b   Asher, Sanford A ^b   Madura, Jeffry D ^a  

^a DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FREE ENERGY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION KINETICS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

MELTING ENERGY; RAMACHANDRAN ANGLE SECONDARY FOLDING;

PEPTIDES;

AMINO ACID; PEPTIDE;

ACCURACY; ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; ENERGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SIMULATION; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

PROTEIN DENATURATION; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN;

EID: 39649117769     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi702112v     Document Type: Article

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