Salt dependence of an α-helical peptide folding energy landscapes

Biochemistry

Volumn 48, Issue 45, 2009, Pages 10818-10826

  Xiong, Kan ^a   Asciutto, Eliana K ^b   Madura, Jeffry D ^b   Asher, Sanford A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^b DUQUESNE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BINDING AFFINITIES; CONFORMATIONAL EQUILIBRIUM; ELECTROSTATIC SCREENING; ENERGY LANDSCAPE; HELICAL CONFORMATION; HELICAL PEPTIDE; HELIX CONFORMATION; HOFMEISTER SERIES; HYDROGEN BONDINGS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS; POLYALANINE; SALT DEPENDENCE; SIDE CHAINS; UV-RESONANCE RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

AMINES; BINDING ENERGY; FLUORINE CONTAINING POLYMERS; HYDROGEN BONDS; IONIC STRENGTH; IONIZATION OF LIQUIDS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PEPTIDES; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

STABILIZATION;

ALANINE; ANION; ARGININE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; WATER;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONFORMATION; ELECTRICITY; ENERGY; HYDROGEN BOND; IONIC STRENGTH; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STABILITY; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

HYDROGEN BONDING; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; SALTS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

EID: 70449625239     PISSN: 00062960     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/bi9014709     Document Type: Article

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