Analysis of the conformations corresponding to hexapeptide and large sequences characterized by continuous single amino acid repeats in proteins

Protein and Peptide Letters

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1459-1465

  Gayatri, Mannava ^a   Guruprasad, Kunchur ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Amyloid peptides; Chameleon sequences; Continuous amino acid repeats; Inherited diseases; Peptide design; Protein data bank; Protein sequence structure analysis; Secondary structure conformations.

Indexed keywords

CYPRINIDAE;

EID: 78650640174     PISSN: 09298665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/0929866511009011459     Document Type: Article

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