Hi,

I am trying to visualize several of the secondary structure details on a protein of interest, and I recently had notice (by several research papers) about the existence of a left-handed helix on it. However, I could not detect the helix using UCSF Chimera (it is simply considered as a loop). Why could this happen and how could be resolved? I have tried to modify the ksdssp cut-off parameter, but it was unsuccessful, so I think now that maybe the specific nature of the helix (left-handed polyproline-like type II) could be a bit tricky for the program. What would you suggest?

Thanks in advance for your help an patience.

Best regards,


Andrés Felipe Vásquez J., BSc, MSc.
Grupo de Fisiología Molecular
Subdirección de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica
Dirección de Investigación en Salud Pública
Instituto Nacional de Salud
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