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James Holton wrote:
> I think the definition of a "coiled coil" is that the helices are 
> symmetric (Crick 1953).  
This is only true for parallel in register coiled coils.
There are many coiled coils that are antiparallel,
see e.g. the SOCKET database at
http://www.lifesci.sussex.ac.uk/research/woolfson

Best wishes,
Sergei