User:Eric Martz/5eon

The biological unit of 5eon is a crystallographic structure of 6 alpha helices assembled into a fiber with a hydrophobic core^[1]. The individual peptides are synthetic and were designed to assemble in this manner, with a hydrophotic core rich in phenylalanine. The crystal structure has a resolution of 1.7 Å and an Rfree of 0.22, which is average for this resolution, indicating that the model is reliable.