A catalogue of phi, psi and omega torsion angles for tetrapeptides in proteins
- 1 June 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in International Journal of Peptide and Protein Research
- Vol. 27 (6) , 666-672
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1399-3011.1986.tb01063.x
Abstract
This work examined the degree of consistency, over multiple occurrences in several proteins, of conformations of tetrapeptides. A data base of 114 proteins was taken from the Brookhaven Data Bank. The number of occurrences of every tetrapeptide in these proteins was counted. For each tetrapeptide which occurred more than 6 times all phi, psi and omega angles were calculated and averaged over the occurrences. Due to the limitations of the data base there were only 24 tetrapeptides in this category. This does not provide sufficient information for the extensive prediction of structures which are not homologous to those already in the data base but the effectiveness of structure prediction can be expected to increase with the size of the data base.Keywords
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