Helix packing angle preferences

被引:74
作者
Bowie, JU [1 ]
机构
[1] UNIV CALIF LOS ANGELES,LAB STRUCT BIOL & MOL MED,LOS ANGELES,CA 90095
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10.1038/nsb1197-915
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The distribution of interaxial angles between packed a-helices has been explained by a number of elegant models describing how side chains on helices can interdigitate without steric conflicts, Here I show that much of the apparent preference for particular angles is due to statistical bias and that true packing angle preferences are not well described by regular packing models.
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