Stabilization of conformationally dynamic helices by covalently attached acyl chains

Protein Science

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1801-1805

  Poschner, Bernhard C ^a,b   Langosch, Dieter ^a,b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b Munich Center for Integrated Protein Science   (Germany)

Author keywords

Acylation; Circular dichroism spectroscopy; Helix stability; Hydrogen deuterium exchange; LV peptides

Indexed keywords

SOLVENT;

ACYLATION; ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COVALENT BOND; DEUTERIUM HYDROGEN EXCHANGE; HYDROPHOBICITY; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN TARGETING;

ACYLATION; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION;

EID: 67749120313     PISSN: 09618368     EISSN: 1469896X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/pro.155     Document Type: Article

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