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Optimization of Synthetic Proteins: Identification of Interpositional Dependencies Indicating Structurally and/or Functionally Linked Residues
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[Mutual disposition of short conformationally stable oligopeptides in the 3D structure of globular proteins]
Biofizika
|January 14, 2010
Abstract:
The disposition of conformationally stable tetrapeptides and the segments containing these peptides in polypeptide chains of proteins from different structural and functional groups has been analyzed. It was shown that the disposition of segments of this kind can be treated as a statistical one. More than 60% of stable peptides in the globula space are separated by distances no greater than 5 A.
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