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ArticleJournal of computational chemistry2017

Unfavorable regions in the ramachandran plot: Is it really steric hindrance? The interacting quantum atoms perspective.

Peter I Maxwell, Paul L A Popelier

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Article in Journal of computational chemistry, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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11citing papers in PubMed
1.1field-weighted citation impact, top 23% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

11 citing papers in PubMed, 28 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Computer-aided genomic data analysis of drug-resistantFrontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2023
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  7. Interacting Quantum Atoms-A Review.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Peter I MaxwellManchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, Great Britain and School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, Great Britain, M13 9PL.
Paul L A PopelierManchester Institute of Biotechnology (MIB), 131 Princess Street, Manchester M1 7DN, Great Britain and School of Chemistry, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, Great Britain, M13 9PL.ORCID 0000-0001-9053-1363
University of Manchester · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Accurate description of the intrinsic preferences of amino acids is important to consider when developing a biomolecular force field. In this study, we use a modern energy partitioning approach called Interacting Quantum Atoms to inspect the cause of the φ and ψ torsional preferences of three dipeptides (Gly, Val, and Ile). Repeating energy trends at each of the molecular, functional group, and atomic levels are observed across both (1) the three amino acids and (2) the φ/ψ scans in Ramachandran plots. At the molecular level, it is surprisingly electrostatic destabilization that causes the high-energy regions in the Ramachandran plot, not molecular steric hindrance (related to the intra-atomic energy). At the functional group and atomic levels, the importance of key peptide atoms (O

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Identifiers

PMID28841241
PMCPMC5659141
OpenAlexW2736666543

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