Rippled beta sheet (IMAGE)

University of California - Santa Cruz

Rippled beta sheet

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The rippled beta sheet is a variation on the pleated beta sheet, a well-known structural motif found in thousands of proteins. Linus Pauling and Robert Corey described the rippled beta sheet in 1953, but it remained a largely theoretical structure for decades. Scientists have now created rippled sheets in the laboratory and characterized the structure using x-ray crystallography.

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Image credit: J. Raskatov

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