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Protein domains allow protein classification by a combination of sequence, structure and function, and they can be combined in many ways. In an early study of 170,000 proteins, about two-thirds were assigned at least one domain, with larger proteins containing more domains (e.g. proteins larger than 600 amino acids having an average of more ...
Proteins may be classified as to their three-dimensional structure (also known a protein fold). The two most widely used classification schemes are: [2] CATH database [3] Structural Classification of Proteins database (SCOP) [4] Both classification schemes are based on a hierarchy of fold types.
The Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP) database is a largely manual classification of protein structural domains based on similarities of their structures and amino acid sequences. A motivation for this classification is to determine the evolutionary relationship between proteins.
The Structural Classification of Proteins database [35] and CATH database [36] provide two different structural classifications of proteins. When the structural similarity is large the two proteins have possibly diverged from a common ancestor, [ 37 ] and shared structure between proteins is considered evidence of homology .
The Enzyme Commission number (EC number) is a numerical classification scheme for enzymes, based on the chemical reactions they catalyze. [1] As a system of enzyme nomenclature, every EC number is associated with a recommended name for the corresponding enzyme-catalyzed reaction. EC numbers do not specify enzymes but enzyme-catalyzed reactions.
The study of proteins, generally under the heading of proteomics, is a vast and complex subject, and much effort has been made to classify and categorize, according to the many specific fields of investigation under which they come.
Biochemistry is closely related to molecular biology, the study of the molecular mechanisms of biological phenomena. [5] Much of biochemistry deals with the structures, functions, and interactions of biological macromolecules such as proteins, nucleic acids, carbohydrates, and lipids.
Pyruvate kinase, a protein with three domains (In molecular biology, a protein domain is a region of a protein's polypeptide chain that is self-stabilizing and that folds independently from the rest. Each domain forms a compact folded three-dimensional structure. Many proteins consist of several domains, and a domain may appear in a variety of ...
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