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The pleated sheet, a new layer configuration of polypeptide chains.

Publication Details

Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (USA), 37, 251-256. 1951 CE.

Pauling and Corey discovered the β-sheet, a principal structural feature of proteins. Digital facsimile from PNAS.org at this link.

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