Dissecting α-helices: Position-specific
✍
Sandeep Kumar; Manju Bansal
📂
Article
📅
1998
🏛
John Wiley and Sons
🌐
English
⚖ 258 KB
👁 1 views
An analysis of the amino acid distributions at 15 positions, viz., NЉ, NЈ, Ncap, N1, N2, N3, N4, Mid, C4, C3, C2, C1, Ccap, CЈ, and CЉ in 1,131 ␣-helices reveals that each position has its own unique characteristics. In general, natural helix sequences optimize by identifying the residues to be avoi