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A fruitful combination of molecular dynamics based design and modern synthetic reactions led to a conformatively rigidized cis-peptidyl proline surrogate (see picture). NMR spectroscopic experiments clearly show the existance of type VIa β-turn properties that are of interest in drug discovery.
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