A very common form of secondary structure in proteins, in which the polypeptide chain is coiled into a helix. The helical structure is held in place by weak hydrogen bonds between the N-H and C = O groups in successive turns of the helix (see illustration). Compare beta sheet.
Alphamethyltryptamine
The most common form of secondary structure in proteins, in which the polypeptide chain is coiled into a helix. The helical structure is held in place by weak hydrogen bonds between the N–H and C = O groups in successive turns of the helix (see illustration). Compare beta sheet.
Alpha helix
- convertibility
- convertible currency
- convertible debenture
- convex
- convex function
- convex hull
- nuclear time-scale
- nuclear transfer
- nuclear waste
- nuclear weapons
- nuclear–magnetic log
- nuclease
- nucleated settlement
- nucleation
- nuclei
- nucleic acid
- nucleic acid amplification test
- nucleic acid hybridization
- nucleic acids
- nucleocosmochronology
- nucleocytoplasmic large DNA virus
- nucleoid
- nucleolar organizer
- nucleolus
- nucleomorph