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WRINCH1 recently proposed that in monolayers or globular molecules of proteins, polypeptide chains are knitted into a fabric by the bonding process which Frank2 had shown to be required in keratin to make permissible the structure Astbury deduced for it by X-ray crystallography. It is desirable to estimate the energy balance of this process, which is chemically analogous to lactam-lactim tautomerism, or to the ring closure in sugars associated with mutarotation.
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FRANK, F. Energy of Formation of Cyclol Molecules. Nature 138, 242 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138242a0
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