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which amino acids restrict alpha helical or beta pleated sheets formation, what are the properties that...

which amino acids restrict alpha helical or beta pleated sheets formation, what are the properties that they have that make them do so.

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Glycine and Proline amino acid restricts the alpha helix and beta pleated sheets formation because this these amino acids don't favour hydrogen bond formation.Glyvine has no side chain.it shows  conformational flexibility that makes it entropically expensive to adopt the relatively constrained α-helical structure.

Proline has an unusual shape for an amino acid because its R-group folds back on itself to form a ring with the amino group of the backbone.

That changes the bonding angle of the polypeptide chain and causes a kink.The kink caused by the R-group ring prevents the amino group of Proline from participating in the H-bonding.

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