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Transmembrane Domain Oligomerization Propensity determined by ToxR Assay
Published on: May 26, 2011
Morphological aspects of oligomeric protein structures
Hannes Ponstingl1, Thomas Kabir, Denise Gorse
1EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK.
Abstract:
Features of multimeric proteins are reviewed to shed light on the formation of protein assemblies from a structural perspective. The features comprise biochemical and geometric properties. They are compiled on new low-redundancy sets of crystal structures of homomeric proteins with different symmetry and subunit multiplicity, as well as on a set of heteromeric proteins. Crystal structures of likely monomers provide a control group.
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