Effect of pressure on helix-coil transition of an alanine-based peptide: An FTIR study

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 911-918

  Imamura, Hiroshi ^a   Kato, Minoru ^a  

^a RITSUMEIKAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

helix; CD spectra; Infrared spectra; Partial molar volume; Pressure induced folding

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; AMIDE; PEPTIDE;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENERGY; ENTHALPY; HYPERBARISM; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE; UNITED STATES;

ALANINE; AMINO ACID MOTIFS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PRESSURE; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED; TEMPERATURE; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 66149171368     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.22302     Document Type: Article

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