Solution structure of a Photo-Switchable insect kinin Thioxo-Analog

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 343-346

  Cong, Zhiyuan ^a   Huang, Yun ^a   Yang, Longfei ^a   Ye, Dan ^a   Dong, Shouliang ^a  

^a LANZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Insect kinin; NMR spectroscopy; Peptide structure; Thioxo peptide bond

Indexed keywords

INSECT PROTEIN; KININ;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; LEPIDOPTERA; METHODOLOGY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUTION AND SOLUBILITY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRUCTURE ACTIVITY RELATION;

ANIMALS; INSECT PROTEINS; KININS; LEPIDOPTERA; MODELS, MOLECULAR; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; SOLUTIONS; STATIC ELECTRICITY; STRUCTURE-ACTIVITY RELATIONSHIP;

HEXAPODA;

EID: 77949977928     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/092986610790780251     Document Type: Article

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