Stability and Design of α-Helices

Protein Folding Handbook

Volumn 1, Issue , 2008, Pages 247-313

  Doig, Andrew J ^a   Errington, Neil ^a   Iqbalsyah, Teuku M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Design; Ligands; Polypeptide chain; Residues; Schellman motif

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889766283     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9783527619498.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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