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Possibility of the Formation of Cyclols from Simple Peptides

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IN a series of communications in NATURE, Dr. D. M. Wrinch1 has put forward a new hypothesis on the structure of certain proteins—the ‘cyclol-theory’. According to this, peptide chains should be capable of uniting to form two- and three-dimensional nets, three peptide residues forming a ring as in II: A, C, and E represent residues of the type R.CO.NH.CHR- ; B, D, and F residues of the type R.NH.CHR.CO-.

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  1. NATURE, 138, 241, 651 (1936); 139, 718, 798 (1937); see also Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 161, 505 (1937).

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MEYER, K., HOHENEMSER, W. Possibility of the Formation of Cyclols from Simple Peptides. Nature 141, 1138–1139 (1938). https://doi.org/10.1038/1411138b0

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