Chinese Journal of Nature ›› 2010, Vol. 32 ›› Issue (1): 46-53.

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The Discovery of the Alpha Helix of the Protein Molecule

XIANG Yihe   

  1. Professor, Physics Department of Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
  • Received:2009-08-12 Revised:2009-09-12 Online:2010-02-25 Published:2010-02-25

Key words: peptide bond, polypeptide chain, keratin model, hydrogen bond, plane of the peptide group, structure of the alpha helix