state and by removing enthalpically stabilized "decoy" folds that compete with the fully helical state. It has been shown that ?-helices are more stable, robust to mutations and designable than ?-strands in natural proteins, and also in artificially designed proteins.

Visualization

The three most popular ways of visualizing the alpha-helical secondary structure of oligopeptide sequences are (1) a helical wheel,

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