TY - JOUR ID - pittir17290 UR - http://d-scholarship-dev.library.pitt.edu/17290/ A1 - Xiong, K A1 - Ma, L A1 - Asher, SA Y1 - 2012/03/01/ N2 - CD and UV resonance Raman measurements surprisingly find that the charge screening of even 2 M concentrations of NaCl and KCl does not alter the unfolded PPII and 2.5 1-helix conformations of poly-l-glutamate. These salts appear to be excluded from the region between the side chain charges and the peptide backbone. Furthermore, no direct ion pairing occurs between these salts and the side chain carboxylates. © 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. JF - Biophysical Chemistry VL - 162 SN - 0301-4622 TI - Conformation of poly-L-glutamate is independent of ionic strength SP - 1 AV - public EP - 5 ER -