title: Chemical communication: conductors and insulators of screw-sense preference between helical oligo(aminoisobutyric acid) domains.
abstract: (1)H NMR studies quantify the abilities of achiral amino acids to communicate a left-handed screw-sense preference from one helical Aib(4) domain to another: certain quaternary amino acids (e.g. Ac(6)c) act as effective conductors of conformational preference while others (e.g. diphenylglycine) acts as insulators.
authors.affiliation: School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, UK.
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Boddaert
authors.forename: Jordi
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Solà
authors.forename: Madeleine
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Helliwell
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Clayden
mesh_terms: D000621:Aminoisobutyric Acids / Q000737:chemistry*; D002942:Circular Dichroism; D019906:Nuclear Magnetic Resonance, Biomolecular; D009842:Oligopeptides / Q000737:chemistry*; D011487:Protein Conformation
chemical_list: D000621:Aminoisobutyric Acids; D009842:Oligopeptides