What is it about?
Molecular and solid state structure, physical and chemical properties of peptides made of only glycine residues.
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Why is it important?
Glycine is the simplest amino acid. The series of glycine-based peptides presents the first insight into how the solid state structure and reactivity changes with the length of the peptide chain.
Perspectives
Glycine is the only unsubstituted amino acid in proteins. Glycine increases the conformational flexibility of proteins. Pentaglycine cross-links in the cell wall proteins make some pathogenic cells extremely viable. The strength of many tissues in our body is due to high amount of glycine in the collagen.
Dr Dmitriy V Soldatov
University of Guelph
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This page is a summary of: Glycine homopeptides: the effect of the chain length on the crystal structure and solid state reactivity, CrystEngComm, January 2014, Royal Society of Chemistry,
DOI: 10.1039/c4ce00630e.
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