Cryo-transmission electron microscopy structure of a gigadalton peptide fiber of de novo design

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

Volumn 109, Issue 33, 2012, Pages 13266-13271

  Sharp, Thomas H ^a   Bruning, Marc ^a   Mantell, Judith ^a   Sessions, Richard B ^a   Thomson, Andrew R ^a   Zaccai, Nathan R ^a   Brady, R Leo ^a   Verkade, Paul ^a   Woolfson, Derek N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fibrous proteins; Helical reconstruction; Protein design; X ray crystallography

Indexed keywords

BIOMATERIAL; GIGADALTON PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; CRYO TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTAL STRUCTURE; FIBER; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TRANSMISSION ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

CRYOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY, X-RAY; FROZEN SECTIONS; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84865177814     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1118622109     Document Type: Article

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