Crystal and NMR structures of a Trp-cage mini-protein benchmark for computational fold prediction

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 31, 2012, Pages 12521-12525

  Scian, Michele ^a   Lin, Jasper C ^a   Le Trong, Isolde ^a   Makhatadze, George I ^b   Stenkamp, Ronald E ^a,c   Andersen, Niels H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b RENSSELAER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Folding simulation target; H bonding motifs; Peptide oligomerization; Protein cyclization; Protein protein interaction

Indexed keywords

PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; TRP CAGE MINI PROTEIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; CYCLIZATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; OLIGOMERIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN PURIFICATION; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; X RAY CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; X RAY DIFFRACTION;

NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE, BIOMOLECULAR; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN MULTIMERIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY;

EID: 84864507797     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1121421109     Document Type: Article

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