An exhaustive survey of regular peptide conformations using a new metric for backbone handedness (h)
The Ramachandran plot is important to structural biology as it describes a peptide backbone in the context of its dominant degrees of freedom—the backbone dihedral angles φ and ψ (Ramachandran, Ramakrishnan & Sasisekharan, 1963). Since its introduction, the Ramachandran plot has been a crucial t...
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PeerJ Inc.
2017-05-01
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