9·105 (3.86·104)THE FORMATION OF A COILED COIL STRUCTURE. FRACTION H...
7.9·10
5
(3.86·104
)the formation of a coiled coil structure. Fraction helicity (ƒH
) canbe calculated as ƒH
= (h222
)hc
)⁄(h222¥
)hc
), where h222¥
=()44000 + 250T)·(1 –k⁄Nr) and hc
= 2220 – (53·T). In theseequations the wavelength-dependent constantk= 2.4 (at 222 nm),Nr= the number of residues andT= 20C (293 K). Agadir [34–36]severely underestimates helicity for many of the dimeric pairs,most likely because it does not take into account the interhelical