Foldamers with heterogeneous backbones

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1399-1408

  Horne, W Seth ^a   Gellman, Samuel H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT; PEPTIDE; PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; METABOLISM; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 57349134690     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar800009n     Document Type: Article

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