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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Mar 31.
Published in final edited form as: Biochemistry. 2009 Mar 31;48(12):2777–2787. doi: 10.1021/bi801293v

Table 2.

Indole bond lengths for Tryptophan-containing Proteins and Derivatives

Tryptophan-containing Species r(C3--Cβ)/pm* r(C3---C2)/pm* r(C2—N1)/pm*
Ac-L-TrpME 150.7 135.4 136.2
Melittin W19B 150.0 136.7 138.5
fd virion coat 149.5 135.8 137.2

Gyrase B/chlorobiocin 152.0 136.3 137.6
TIM/PGA 149.3 136.1 137.8
Pf3 virion coat 146.3 136.4 138.9
*

All bond lengths measured from corresponding Protein Data Bank file; see Table 1 for corresponding file; pm=picometer.