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ReviewCurrent protocols in protein science2004

Overview of protein structural and functional folds.

Peter D Sun, Christine E Foster, Jeffrey C Boyington

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Review in Current protocols in protein science, 2004. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Peter D SunNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Rockville, Maryland, USA.
Christine E Foster
Jeffrey C Boyington

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This overview provides an illustrated, comprehensive survey of some commonly observed protein-fold families and structural motifs, chosen for their functional significance. It opens with descriptions and definitions of the various elements of protein structure and associated terminology. Following is an introduction into web-based structural bioinformatics that includes surveys of interactive web servers for protein fold or domain annotation, protein-structure databases, protein-structure-classification databases, structural alignments of proteins, and molecular graphics programs available for personal computers. The rest of the overview describes selected families of protein folds in terms of their secondary, tertiary, and quaternary structural arrangements, including ribbon-diagram examples, tables of representative structures with references, and brief explanations pointing out their respective biological and functional significance.

Indexed as

Protein ConformationProtein FoldingProteinsAnimalsComputational BiologyCytoskeletonDatabases, ProteinDNAElectron TransportHumansImmune SystemModels, MolecularMusclesReceptors, Cell SurfaceRNASignal TransductionDNAProteinsReceptors, Cell SurfaceRNA

Identifiers

PMID18429251
PMCPMC7162418

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