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Mirrors in the PDB: left-handed α-turns guide design with D-amino acids

Srinivas Annavarapu1,2 and Vikas Nanda1,2*

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1 Department of Biochemistry, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

2 Center for Advanced Biotechnology and Medicine, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA

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BMC Structural Biology 2009, 9:61 doi:10.1186/1472-6807-9-61

Published: 22 September 2009

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Supplementary Figures and Tables. This file contains additional tables and figures. Table S1: Left-handed turn-containing structures, Table S2: Residue counts in three-residue turns and Figure S1: Electron Density Maps of Relative High B-factor Turns.

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Additional file 2:

PERL script code. findalphaleft.pl is the PERL script used to identify αL-helices and turns in the PDB.

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