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Alpha-helical

Alpha-helical

Extracted from the Wikipedia article Alpha helix.

Table of standard amino acid alpha-helical propensities

Estimated differences in free energy change, Δ(ΔG), estimated in kcal/mol per residue in an α-helical configuration, relative to alanine arbitrarily set as zero. Higher numbers (more positive free energy changes) are less favoured. Significant deviations from these average numbers are possible, depending on the identities of the neighbouring residues.