Charged histidine affects alpha-helix stability at all positions in the helix by interacting with the backbone charges
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Charged histidine affects alpha-helix stability at all positions in the helix by interacting with the backbone charges.
To determine whether a charged histidine side chain affects alpha-helix stability only when histidine is close to one end of the helix or also when it is in the central region, we substitute a single histidine residue at many positions in two reference peptides and measure helix stability and histidine pKa. The position of a charged histidine residue has a major effect on helix stability in 0.0...
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عنوان ژورنال: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
سال: 1993
ISSN: 0027-8424,1091-6490
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.90.23.11337