Role of non-planar peptide unit in regular polypeptide helices. New model for poly-beta-benzyl-L-Aspartate.

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Summary

Conformational energy calculations show that poly-beta-benzyl-L -aspartate with the delta-helical structure is considerably more stable than the structure it is generally believed to take up (the omega-helix) by about 15 kcal/mol-residue.

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Published
2009-01-12
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Keywords

Planarity testing, Helix (gastropod), Peptide, Crystallography, Hydrogen bond

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