In article <DAVID.12.000C8DFC at chempath.uct.ac.za>
DAVID at chempath.uct.ac.za (Dave Myburgh) writes:
>Hi all
>>I am interested in finding out more about pi-bonding between the rings of
>phenylalanines. (stuff deleted) My interest is in Phe residues interacting
>with each other in adjacent helices in transmembrane proteins (mainly G-
>protein coupled receptors).
>>If anyone knows of a reference, I would really appreciate it.
Dave,
try Singh & Thornton, Atlas of Protein Side Chain Interactions, IRL Press,
Oxford, 1991.
The same authors also have at least one specific paper on the subject of Phe/Phe
interactions although I fainbtly recall seeing a more recent update: the
paper is FEBS Lett. 191, 1-6 (1985).
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