Natural proteins are concatenated amino acids with definite handedness or chirality, with their spatial orientation being preferentially left handed or L-chiral. This paper discusses the biophysics of stereo-chemical perturbation to proteins using D-(α) amino acid and its utility as an additional design alphabet while scripting novel protein structures.
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