Letter A

Alpha helix

The coiled structure of many proteins consisting of a single chain of amino acids stabilized by hydrogen bonds.

The alpha helix was first proposed by Linus Pauling and Robert Corey in a brilliant series of paper in the early 1950s.

It is also known as the Pauling-Corey helix.

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