Nambudripad R, Bansal M, Sasisekharan V. Role of non-planar peptide unit in regular polypeptide helices. New model for poly-beta-benzyl-L-Aspartate.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PEPTIDE AND PROTEIN RESEARCH 1981;
18:374-82. [PMID:
7309384 DOI:
10.1111/j.1399-3011.1981.tb02995.x]
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Abstract
The effect of non-planarity of the peptide unit on helical structures stabilized by intrachain hydrogen bonds is discussed. While the present calculations generally agree with those already reported in the literature for right-handed helical structures, it is found that the most stable left-handed structure is a novel helix, called the delta-helix. Its helical parameters are close to these reported for poly-beta-benzyl-L -aspartate. 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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