Local and macroscopic electrostatic interactions in single α-helices

Nature Chemical Biology

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 221-228

  Baker, Emily G ^a   Bartlett, Gail J ^a   Crump, Matthew P ^a   Sessions, Richard B ^a   Linden, Noah ^a   Faul, Charl F J ^a   Woolfson, Derek N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ALPHA HELIX; ARTICLE; BIOINFORMATICS; CIRCULAR DICHROISM; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYDROGEN BOND; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; NUCLEAR OVERHAUSER EFFECT; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN SECONDARY STRUCTURE; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REVERSED PHASE HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STATIC ELECTRICITY; ULTRACENTRIFUGATION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PROTEIN UNFOLDING;

GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; MYOSIN; PEPTIDE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; GLUTAMIC ACID; LYSINE; MODELS, MOLECULAR; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; MYOSINS; PEPTIDES; PROTEIN FOLDING; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEIN UNFOLDING; STATIC ELECTRICITY;

EID: 84925533256     PISSN: 15524450     EISSN: 15524469     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.1739     Document Type: Article

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