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  2. Protein secondary structure - Wikipedia

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    The Dictionary of Protein Secondary Structure, in short DSSP, is commonly used to describe the protein secondary structure with single letter codes. The secondary structure is assigned based on hydrogen bonding patterns as those initially proposed by Pauling et al. in 1951 (before any protein structure had ever been experimentally determined ...

  3. Beta sheet - Wikipedia

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    The beta sheet (β-sheet, also β-pleated sheet) is a common motif of the regular protein secondary structure. Beta sheets consist of beta strands ( β-strands ) connected laterally by at least two or three backbone hydrogen bonds , forming a generally twisted, pleated sheet.

  4. Alpha sheet - Wikipedia

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    Diagram of the hydrogen bonding patterns in the alpha sheet structure. Oxygen atoms are shown in red and nitrogen in blue; dotted lines represent hydrogen bonds. R groups represent the amino acid side chains. A stick representation of a peptide chain in an alpha-sheet configuration.

  5. Biomolecular structure - Wikipedia

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    The primary structure of a biopolymer is the exact specification of its atomic composition and the chemical bonds connecting those atoms (including stereochemistry).For a typical unbranched, un-crosslinked biopolymer (such as a molecule of a typical intracellular protein, or of DNA or RNA), the primary structure is equivalent to specifying the sequence of its monomeric subunits, such as amino ...

  6. Alpha helix - Wikipedia

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    Three-dimensional structure of an alpha helix in the protein crambin. An alpha helix (or α-helix) is a sequence of amino acids in a protein that are twisted into a coil (a helix). The alpha helix is the most common structural arrangement in the secondary structure of proteins. It is also the most extreme type of local structure, and it is the ...

  7. DSSP (algorithm) - Wikipedia

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    The DSSP algorithm is the standard method for assigning secondary structure to the amino acids of a protein, given the atomic-resolution coordinates of the protein. The abbreviation is only mentioned once in the 1983 paper describing this algorithm, [2] where it is the name of the Pascal program that implements the algorithm Define Secondary Structure of Proteins.

  8. Protein structure - Wikipedia

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    The generation of a protein sequence is much easier than the determination of a protein structure. However, the structure of a protein gives much more insight in the function of the protein than its sequence. Therefore, a number of methods for the computational prediction of protein structure from its sequence have been developed. [39]

  9. Rossmann fold - Wikipedia

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    The Rossmann fold is a tertiary fold found in proteins that bind nucleotides, such as enzyme cofactors FAD, NAD +, and NADP +.This fold is composed of alternating beta strands and alpha helical segments where the beta strands are hydrogen bonded to each other forming an extended beta sheet and the alpha helices surround both faces of the sheet to produce a three-layered sandwich.