V. Sasisekharan Created 2026-10-20 Updated 2026-11-05
V. Sasisekharan helped map geometrically allowed polypeptide backbone configurations. Representing the backbone by torsion angles exposes combinations excluded by steric overlap, connecting molecular geometry with restrictions on protein structure.[ref]
Stereochemistry of polypeptide chain configurations by G. N. Ramachandran and others. 1963, backbone torsion-angle representation and steric restrictions