Moret E, Gerothanassis I P, Hunston R N, Lauterwein J
Institut de Chimie Organique, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland.
FEBS Lett. 1990 Mar 26;262(2):173-5. doi: 10.1016/0014-5793(90)80182-i.
The 17O chemical shifts of the Gly-2 and Gly-3 oxygens of a fully protected Leu-enkephalin were measured to be identical in acetone solution. This allows the conclusion that neither of these peptide oxygens is hydrogen bonded and that no specific 2----5 beta-turn structure exists to an appreciable extent.