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Peptide chain turns are those parts of a globular protein where the backbone changes its direction. A simple, non-empirical hypothesis is presented to account for both the turns and the hydrophobic core of the protein using only the amino acid sequence.
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Rose, G. Prediction of chain turns in globular proteins on a hydrophobic basis. Nature 272, 586–590 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/272586a0
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