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Stable Configurations of a Polypeptide Chain

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IN recent communications in Nature, Ambrose and his co-workers proposed a model for the molecular structure of α-keratin based on their measurements with polarized infra-red radiation1,2. The same model has already been presented by two of us (S. and M.) in 1947, based on the energy consideration for the intramolecular rotation3,4.

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    SAN-ICHIRO MIZUSHIMA, TAKEHIKO SIMANOUTI, MASAMICHI TSUBOI, TADAO SUGITA & EIZO KATO

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MIZUSHIMA, SI., SIMANOUTI, T., TSUBOI, M. et al. Stable Configurations of a Polypeptide Chain. Nature 164, 918–919 (1949). https://doi.org/10.1038/164918a0

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