Herein we report the 1.15 Å X-ray crystal structure of a short
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-helix in which the N-terminal
iand
i + 4 main chain hydrogen bond is replaced with a carbon-carbon bond. The structure shows that thehydrogen-bond surrogate (HBS) derived
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-helix truly resembles the structure of canonical
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-helices andprovides unequivocal support for our helix nucleation strategy.