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Compound Helical Configurations of Polypeptide Chains: Structure of Proteins of the α-Keratin Type

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PAULING, L., COREY, R. Compound Helical Configurations of Polypeptide Chains: Structure of Proteins of the α-Keratin Type. Nature 171, 59–61 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171059a0

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