Protein structure /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
IRL Press at Oxford University Press,
[1993]
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| Series: | In focus (Oxford, England)
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Table of Contents:
- Basic aspects of polypeptide structure
- Covalent structures of proteins
- Non-covalent forces in protein structure
- Electrostatic interactions
- van der Waals interactions
- Hydrogen bonds
- Hydrophobic interactions
- Amino acid residues
- Primary structures of proteins
- Three-dimensional aspects of polypeptide structure
- Conformations of polypeptides
- Regular polypeptide structures
- Structures of fibrous proteins
- Silk fibroin
- Collagen
- Coiled-coils
- Three-dimensional structures of proteins
- Determining protein structure
- CD spectroscopy
- X-ray diffraction
- NMR spectroscopy
- Structural organization in globular proteins
- Tertiary structure
- Protein interiors and exteriors
- Secondary structure
- Loops and turns
- Disulphide bonds
- Domains
- Supersecondary structure and folding patterns
- Quaternary structure
- Flexibility in protein structures
- Evolutionarily related proteins
- Predicting protein structure
- Protein design
- Proteins in solution and in membranes
- Proteins in aqueous solution
- Aqueous solubility
- Ionization.
- (cont) Membrane proteins
- Stability of the folded state
- Unfolding
- Thermodynamics of unfolding
- Rationalizing protein stability
- Other factors that affect protein stability
- Protein folding
- General characteristics of protein folding
- Identifying folding intermediates
- Biosynthetic folding
- Ligand binding and protein function
- Ligand binding
- Studying protein-ligand interactions
- General properties of protein-ligand interactions
- Relationship between protein structure and ligand binding
- Calcium-binding proteins
- Redox proteins
- Nucleotide-binding proteins
- DNA-binding proteins
- Helix-turn-helix proteins
- Zinc-containing DNA recognition elements
- Other DNA-binding motifs
- Regulation of ligand binding
- Allosteric regulation
- Reversible covalent modification.