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PLEASE HELP! Stuck on this biochem homework problem.
The lipid portion of a typical bilayer is about 30 Ã thick.
a) Calculate the minimum number of residues in an ?-helix required to span this distance.
b) Calculate the minimum number of residues in a ?-strand required to span this distance.
c) Explain why ?-helices are most commonly observed in transmembrane protein sequences when the distance from one side of a membrane to the other can be spanned by significantly fewer amino acids in a ?-strand configuration
PLEASE HELP! Stuck on this biochem homework problem.
The lipid portion of a typical bilayer is about 30 Ã thick.
a) Calculate the minimum number of residues in an ?-helix required to span this distance.
b) Calculate the minimum number of residues in a ?-strand required to span this distance.
c) Explain why ?-helices are most commonly observed in transmembrane protein sequences when the distance from one side of a membrane to the other can be spanned by significantly fewer amino acids in a ?-strand configuration
Casey DurganLv2
29 Sep 2019