Examining the Conservation of Kinks in Alpha Helices.

Kinks are a structural feature of alpha-helices and many are known to have functional roles. Kinks have previously tended to be defined in a binary fashion. In this paper we have deliberately moved towards defining them on a continuum, which given the unimodal distribution of kink angles is a better...

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Main Authors: Eleanor C Law, Henry R Wilman, Sebastian Kelm, Jiye Shi, Charlotte M Deane
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4912094?pdf=render