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. 2004 Aug 31;87(5):3460–3469. doi: 10.1529/biophysj.104.044024

FIGURE 3.

FIGURE 3

Histidine's most frequent rotamer in TM helices, His(−60,60). The side-chain Nδ atom hydrogen bonds to the i − 4 backbone carbonyl O atom. The Nδ–O distance is 2.2 Å. This rotamer also extends the ring N atoms an average of 2.0 Å toward the N-terminal side of the membrane.