A novel scoring function for predicting the conformations of tightly packed pairs of transmembrane alpha-helices.

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Pairs of helices in transmembrane (TM) proteins are often tightly packed. We present a scoring function and a computational methodology for predicting the tertiary fold of a pair of alpha-helices such that its chances of being tightly packed are maximized. Since the number of TM protein structures solved to date is small, it seems unlikely that a reliable scoring function derived statistically from the known set...

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