Note: Ramachandran plot

In this Ramachandran plot X-signs represent glycines, squares represent prolines and small plus-signs represent the other residues. If too many plus-signs fall outside the contoured areas then the molecule is poorly refined (or worse).

In a colour picture, the residues that are part of a helix are shown in blue, strand residues in red. "Allowed" regions for helical residues are drawn in blue, for strand residues in red, and for all other residues in green.

Chain without chain identifier