Variants of 310-helices in proteins
Variants of 310-helices in proteins
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DOI:
10.1002/prot.10184
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发表时间:
2002-08-15
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Chakrabarti, P
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作者:
Pal, L;Basu, G;Chakrabarti, P
An analysis of the shortest 3(10)-helices, containing three helical residues and two flanking capping residues that participate in two consecutive i + 3 --> i hydrogen bonds, shows that not all helices belong to the classic 3(10)-helix, where the three central residues adopt the right-handed helical conformation (alpha(R)). Three variants identified are: 3(10)(L-)helix with all residues in the left-handed helical region (alpha(L)), 3(10)(EL)-helix where the first residue is in the extended region followed by two residues in the a, conformation, and its mirror-image, the 3(10)(E'R)-helix. In the context of these helices, as well as the equivalent variants of alpha-helices, the length dependence of the handedness of secondary structures in protein structure is discussed. There are considerable differences in the amino acid preferences at different positions in the various types of 3(10)-helices. Each type of 3(10)-helix can be thought to be made up of an extension of a particular type of beta-turn (made up of residues i to i + 3) such that the (i + 3)th residue assumes the same conformation as the preceding residue. Distinct residue preferences at i and i + 3 positions seem to decide whether a particular stretch of four residues will be a beta-turn or a 3(10)-helix in the folded structure.