Anesthesia Pharmacology Chapter 4:  Physics and Anesthesiology

More about Protein Secondary Structure

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56Beta-sheets (antiparallel in this example) forms may twist, coil and turn, by contrast to alpha helical configurations

 

Beta Strand Protein Configuration (secondary structure)

 

Beta bends
Tropocollagen

 

Hydrophobic Amino Acids: commonly present in fibrous proteins
phenylalanine isoleucine valine
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