Category:SO:0001117 ! alpha helix
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id: SO:0001117
name: alpha_helix
alt_id: BS:00040
def: "The helix has 3.6 residues per turn which corersponds to a translation of 1.5 angstroms (= 0.15 nm) along the helical axis. Every backbone N-H group donates a hydrogen bond to the backbone C=O group of the amino acid four residues earlier." [EBIBS:GAR]
comment: Range.
subset: biosapiens
synonym: "a-helix" RELATED BS []
synonym: "helix" RELATED BS [uniprot:feature_type]
xref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpha_helix "wiki"
is_a: SO:0001116 ! right_handed_peptide_helix
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| Date Created | Date Last Edited | Date Obsoleted | Date Last Checked |
| 2007-08-08 | 2009-05-08 | 0000-00-00 | 2011-10-11 |
| [revision] | [revision] | [] |

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