Racemic β-sheets as templates of relevance to the origin of homochirality of peptides: Lessons from crystal chemistry

Accounts of Chemical Research

Volumn 42, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1128-1140

  Weissbuch, Isabelle ^a   Illos, Roni A ^a   Bolbach, Gérard ^b   Lahav, M ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN TERTIARY STRUCTURE; STEREOISOMERISM;

PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, TERTIARY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 68949194729     PISSN: 00014842     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ar900033k     Document Type: Article

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