Solvation and Electrostatics as Determinants of Local Structural Order in Unfolded Peptides and Proteins

Protein and Peptide Folding, Misfolding, and Non-Folding

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 131-158

  Avbelj, Franc ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHEMISTRY   (Slovenia)

Author keywords

Determining hydrogen exchange rates; ESM, backbone conformational preferences; Solvation and electrostatics, structural order

Indexed keywords

EID: 84888720145     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781118183373.ch5     Document Type: Chapter

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