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Linus Pauling and the planar peptide bond

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Figure 1: Peptide bond rotational energies and angular frequency distribution.

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I thank H. Weissig of the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Protein Data Bank for providing the dihedral angles used in Fig. 1. D. Purich, R. McKenna, M. Agbandje-McKenna, and members of my laboratory provided helpful and stimulating discussions.

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Edison, A. Linus Pauling and the planar peptide bond. Nat Struct Mol Biol 8, 201–202 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/84921

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