Hexagonal bipyramid bipyramid has a plane of symmetry (which is horizontal in the figure to the right) where the bases of the two pyramids are joined. This plane is a regular hexagon. There are also six planes of symmetry crossing through the two apices. These planes are rhombic and lie at 30° angles to each other, perpendicular to the horizontal plane. It can be drawn as a tiling on a sphere which also represents the fundamental domains of [3,2], *322 dihedral symmetry: The hexagonal bipyramid, dt{2,6}, can be in sequence truncated, tdt{2,6} and alternated (snubbed), sdt{2,6}: The "hexagonal bipyramid", dt{2,6}, can be
Peptide plane flipping Peptide plane flipping Peptide plane flipping is a type of conformational change that can occur in proteins by which the dihedral angles of adjacent amino acids undergo large-scale rotations with little displacement of the side chains. The plane flip is defined as a rotation of the dihedral angles φ,ψ at amino acids "i" and "i+1" such that the resulting angles remain in structurally stable regions of Ramachandran space. The key requirement is that the "sum" of the ψ angle of residue "i" and the φ angle of residue "i+1" remain roughly constant; in effect, the flip is a crankshaft move