A synthetic hexapeptide designed to resemble a proteinaceous p-loop nest is shown to bind inorganic phosphate

Proteins: Structure, Function and Bioinformatics

Volumn 80, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1418-1424

  Bianchi, Antonio ^a   Giorgi, Claudia ^a   Ruzza, Paolo ^b   Toniolo, Claudio ^b   Milner White, E James ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hydrogen bond; Nest; P loop; Peptide; Phosphate

Indexed keywords

HEXAPEPTIDE; PHOSPHATE; SERYLGLYCYLALANYLGLYCYLLYSYLTHREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ARTICLE; BINDING AFFINITY; BINDING SITE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; COMPLEX FORMATION; HYDROGEN BOND; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; PROTON TRANSPORT; THERMODYNAMICS;

GLYCINE; HYDROGEN BONDING; MODELS, MOLECULAR; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PHOSPHATES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84859438581     PISSN: 08873585     EISSN: 10970134     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24038     Document Type: Article

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