Structure of the Synthetic Polypeptide Poly-γ-methyl-L-glutamate
@article{Yakel1952StructureOT,
title={Structure of the Synthetic Polypeptide Poly-$\gamma$-methyl-L-glutamate},
author={Harry L. Yakel and Linus Carl Pauling and Robert B. Corey},
journal={Nature},
year={1952},
volume={169},
pages={920-920}
}WE have made a check on the assignment of the α-helix with eighteen residues in five turns to poly-γ-methyl-L-glutamate1 by preparing and interpreting X-ray photographs of a sample of the material. The results obtained not only support the assignment, but also indicate that the β-carbon atoms are in position 2 rather than in position 1 2. This is the same assignment of the β-carbon atoms as that made by Riley and Arndt3 for serum albumin, on the basis of their determination of the radial…
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