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: Law, Eleanor C., Wilman, Henry R., Kelm, Sebastian, Shi, Jiye, Deane, Charlotte M.
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science 2016
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4912094/