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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 26.
Published in final edited form as: J Am Chem Soc. 2010 Dec 23;133(3):462–477. doi: 10.1021/ja1071916

Table 2.

Correspondence of Cβ - Cβ Distances for Peptidomimetics A, B, and 14 With Common Secondary Structures.a

structure sequence D(Å) A B 1 2 3 4
α-helix i-i+ 1 5.2
i-i+ 2 7.1
i-i+ 3 5.6
i-i+ 4 6.5
i-i+ 5 9.8
i-i+ 6 10.8
i-i+ 7 10.7
i-i+ 8 12.9
β-turn (type-I) i-i+ 1 5.7
i-i+ 2 5.1
i-i+ 3 5.4
i+1-i+2 5.2
i+1-i+3 7.5
i+2-i+3 5.6
β-sheet (parallel) i-i+ 1 5.8
i-i+ 2 7.1
i-i+ 3 11.1
i-i+ 4 13.2
i-i’ 5.5
i-i’+1 7.2
i-i’+2 9.0
i-i’+3 11.5
i-i’+4 14.4
β-sheet (anti-parallel) i-i+ 1 5.8
i-i+ 2 6.5
i-i+ 3 11.0
i-i+ 4 12.8
i-i’ 4.5
i-i’+1 7.6
i-i’+2 8.9
i-i’+3 12.7
i-i’+4 14.8
γ-turn (classic) i-i+ 1 5.2
i-i+ 2 7.4
i+1-i+2 5.3
γ-turn (inverse) i-i+ 1 6.3
i-i+ 2 5.7
i+1-i+2 6.2
a

Templates for ideal type I β-turns54,76 and for γ-turns77 were obtained from standard torsion angles. A standard template for overlays with an α-helix was obtained from Discovery Studio 2.578, and a β-sheet template for overlays was obtained by β -sheet builder.79