N→π* interactions in proteins

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 615-620

  Bartlett, Gail J ^a   Choudhary, Amit ^b   Raines, Ronald T ^b   Woolfson, Derek N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIDE; PROTEIN; DIPEPTIDE;

ARTICLE; BETA SHEET; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEIC ACID DATABASE; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY;

COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; DATABASES, NUCLEIC ACID; DIPEPTIDES; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 77955875331     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.406     Document Type: Article

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