Section 9- Tertiary Structure Part I

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Overview of Protein Structure Terminology
Principles of Packing of Protein Secondary Structures - describes the architecture of associating secondary elements in supersecondary/tertiary structure
- Packing in the coiled-coil structure by Antti Iivanainen, now of the Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm
Supersecondary Structure - by Jon Cooper

Kinemages relevant to Section 9

Kinemage 3 of the Protein Tourist 2 kinemage file, by Tom Alber and Jane Richardson, illustrates the GCN4 leucine zipper peptide

Some Kinemages accompanying Chapter 2 of the Branden and Tooze book deal with supersecondary structure motifs. The Kinemage for the whole of this chapter has been split up into smaller, more manageable Kinemages by Gail Schuman of Brookhaven Structural Biology.

Kinemage 6 of this suite deals with EF hands in calmodulin. Kinemage 7 demonstrates the right-handedness of beta-alpha-beta units. Click here for the Kinemage files

More info on Kinemages on the PPS Technology page.

Please e-mail any questions or comments on the topics of the current course material to the pps96-proteins list.

Thanks to

Jon Cooper
Antti Iivanainen
Ronald C. Beavis and David Fenyo
Joan Pontius
Janet M. Thornton

Index to Course Material

Last updated 10th Jun '96