Cationic oligopeptides with the repeating sequence L-lysyl-L-alanyl-L-alanine: Conformational and thermal stability study using optical spectroscopic methods

Journal of Peptide Science

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 533-539

  Setnička, Vladimír ^a   Hlaváček, Jan ^b   Urbanová, Marie ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Czech Republic)

^b INSTITUTE OF ORGANIC CHEMISTRY AND BIOCHEMISTRY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cationic peptides; Conformation; Thermal stability; Vibrational circular dichroism

Indexed keywords

ALANINE; LYSINE; LYSYLALANYLALANINE; OLIGOPEPTIDE; POLYPROLINE II; PROLINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; CANONICAL ANALYSIS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUILIBRIUM CONSTANT; INFRARED RADIATION; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SPECTROSCOPY; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENCE; THERMOSTABILITY;

CIRCULAR DICHROISM; DRUG STABILITY; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SPECTROSCOPY, FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED;

EID: 70349647475     PISSN: 10752617     EISSN: 10991387     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/psc.1154     Document Type: Article

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