Peptide hairpin nucleation with the obligatory Type I' beta-turn Aib-DPro segment.
The alpha-aminoisobutyric acid-D-proline (Aib-(D)Pro) dipeptide is an obligatory Type I' beta-turn forming segment that nucleates hairpin formation.
Raghavender
Upadhyayula Surya
US
Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore 560 012, India.
Aravinda
Subrayashastry
S
Rai
Rajkishor
R
Shamala
Narayanaswamy
N
Balaram
Padmanabhan
P
D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D004151:Dipeptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008958:Models, Molecular; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary
D004151:Dipeptides; C552620:alpha-aminoisobutyric acid-D-proline