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Protein structures. Haixu Tang School of Inforamtics. A covalent peptide bond . Protein conformation is specified by tts Amino Acid sequence . Steric interactions Weak non-covalent bonds hydrogen bonds ionic bonds van der Waals attractions Hydrophobic interaction
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Protein structures Haixu Tang School of Inforamtics
Protein conformation is specified by tts Amino Acid sequence • Steric interactions • Weak non-covalent bonds • hydrogen bonds • ionic bonds • van der Waals attractions • Hydrophobic interaction • distribution of its polar and nonpolar amino acids
Visualizing protein conformations • Protein structures in atomic level • Protein Data Bank (PDB) http://www.rcsb.org • Pymol: http://pymol.sourceforge.net/ • Rasmol: http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/
Secondary structure prediction • Prefer a-helix: Ala, Leu, Met, Phe, Glu, Gln, His, Lys, Arg (sidechains cover and protect the backbone H-bonds) • Prefer b-sheet: Tyr, Trp, Phe, Ile, Val, Thr, Cys (large bulky sidechains) • Disrupt secondary structure: Gly, Pro, Ser, Asp, Asn (small, restrained, or sidechain hydrogen bonds)
Protein Domains • Independent structural unit • Independent function • Independent folding • Independent evolve
Protein structural classification(SCOP: http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/) • Class • Folds • Super-families • Families
Experimental determination of protein structures • X-ray crystallography • NMR (Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) Spectroscopy