Kari U. Prasad

Val-Gly-Val-Ala-Pro-Gly, a repeating peptide in elastin, is chemotactic for fibroblasts and monocytes.

Robert M. Senior, Gail L. Griffin, Robert P. Mecham et al. · The Journal of Cell Biology · 1984 · 397 citations · Full text

Elastin Peptides, Cell Adhesion, Glycobiology +18

Temperature of polypeptide inverse temperature transition depends on mean residue hydrophobicity

Dan W. Urry, Chi Hao Luan, Timothy M. Parker et al. · Journal of the American Chemical Society · 1991 · 328 citations

Engineering, Chemical Analysis, Altmetric Attention Score +18

Phase‐structure transitions of the elastin polypentapeptide–water system within the framework of composition–temperature studies

Dan W. Urry, Tina L. Trapane, Kari U. Prasad · Biopolymers · 1985 · 256 citations

Macromolecular Chemistry, Engineering, Temperature Dependence +16

The membrane as an environment of minimal interconversion. A circular dichroism study on the solvent dependence of the conformational behavior of gramicidin in diacylphosphatidylcholine model membranes

J. Antoinette Killian, Kari U. Prasad, Dorothy Hains et al. · Biochemistry · 1988 · 149 citations

Is the Gramicidin A Transmembrane Channel Single-Stranded or Double-Stranded Helix? A Simple Unequivocal Determination

Dan W. Urry, Tina L. Trapane, Kari U. Prasad · Science · 1983 · 121 citations

Proteinlipid Interaction, Bioorganic Chemistry, Biochemistry +13