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Quaternary Structure Modeling Through Chemical Cross-Linking Mass Spectrometry: Extending TX-MS Jupyter Reports
Published on: October 20, 2021
Protein super-secondary structure and quaternary structure topology: theoretical description and application
1Molecular Bioinformatics, Institute of Computer Science, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, Robert-Mayer-Straße 11-15, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
Abstract:
This review comprises theoretical approaches and recent developments to describe the super-secondary and quaternary structure topology of a protein in a mathematically unique way. Based on the advances in experimental exploration of proteins and protein complexes, new extended abstract descriptions that include, for example, ligand information have been developed. A special focus concerns protein complexes and their description at secondary structure level as well as at quaternary structure level. Here, we give and discuss their unique graph-theoretic description and visualization. We highlight recent developments for applications to protein structure assembly.
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