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Title: When can polypeptide chains form coiled-coils?
Post by: Bee101 on Feb 26, 2017
The other day, my teacher suggested we find out whether a chain of the following amino acid sequence would be able to form a coiled-coil:

N-KIAEVRAQYEDVANKVRLIVE-C

Now, I can see that the chain is not amphiphilic as it does not alternate between polar and non polar amino acids. But when I come across an exercise of this type, how do I determine if it can actually form coiled coils? I can feel this will be a question on the final test.
All help is deeply appreciated.


Title: Re: When can polypeptide chains form coiled-coils?
Post by: Username on Nov 5, 2017
Google it