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ArticleBiomolecules2021

Statistical Evidence for a Helical Nascent Chain.

Leonor Cruzeiro, Andrew C Gill, J Chris Eilbeck

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Article in Biomolecules, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Leonor CruzeiroCCMAR/CIMAR - Centro de Ciências do Mar, FCT, Universidade do Algarve, Campus de Gambelas, 8005-139 Faro, Portugal.ORCID 0000-0001-7958-6435
Andrew C GillSchool of Chemistry, Joseph Banks Laboratories, University of Lincoln, Green Lane, Lincoln LN67DL, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-5201-9473
J Chris EilbeckDepartment of Mathematics and Maxwell Institute, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh EH14 4AS, Scotland, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-9884-9093

Funding

Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Portugal UID/Multi/04326/2019
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We investigate the hypothesis that protein folding is a kinetic, non-equilibrium process, in which the structure of the nascent chain is crucial. We compare actual amino acid frequencies in loops, α-helices and β-sheets with the frequencies that would arise in the absence of any amino acid bias for those secondary structures. The novel analysis suggests that while specific amino acids exist to drive the formation of loops and sheets, none stand out as drivers for α-helices. This favours the idea that the α-helix is the initial structure of most proteins before the folding process begins.

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Amino Acid SequenceAnimalsHumansProtein FoldingProteinsProtein Structure, SecondaryProteinsfolding pathwayprotein foldingsecondary structure predictionsingle amino acid distributions

Identifiers

PMID33652806
PMCPMC7996779

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