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A transmembrane domain (TMD, TM domain) is a membrane-spanning protein domain.TMDs may consist of one or several alpha-helices or a transmembrane beta barrel.Because the interior of the lipid bilayer is hydrophobic, the amino acid residues in TMDs are often hydrophobic, although proteins such as membrane pumps and ion channels can contain polar residues.
ABC transporter transmembrane domain is the main transmembrane structural unit of ATP-binding cassette transporter proteins, consisting of six alpha helixes that traverse the plasma membrane. Many members of the ABC transporter family ( Pfam PF00005 ) have two such regions.
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This causes the cross-prediction between them, which is a weakness of many transmembrane topology predictors. By predicting signal peptides and transmembrane helices simultaneously (Phobius [14]), the errors caused by cross-prediction are reduced and the performance is substantially increased. Another feature used to increase the accuracy of ...
Schematic representation of transmembrane proteins: 1) a single-pass membrane protein 2) a multipass membrane protein (α-helix) 3) a multipass membrane protein β-sheet. The membrane is represented in light yellow. A transmembrane protein is a type of integral membrane protein that spans the entirety of the cell membrane.
They are usually pentameric with each subunit containing 4 transmembrane helices constituting the transmembrane domain, and a beta sheet sandwich type, extracellular, N terminal, ligand binding domain. [6] Some also contain an intracellular domain like shown in the image. The prototypic ligand-gated ion channel is the nicotinic acetylcholine ...
Schematic diagram of the 2D structure of aquaporin 1 depicting the six transmembrane alpha-helices and the five interhelical loop regions A-E The 3D structure of aquaporin Z highlighting the 'hourglass'-shaped water channel that cuts through the center of the protein. Aquaporin proteins are composed of a bundle of six transmembrane α-helices ...
A single-pass transmembrane protein typically consists of three domains, the extracellular domain, the transmembrane domain, and the intracellular domain.The transmembrane domain is the smallest at around 25 amino acid residues and forms an alpha helix inserted into the membrane bilayer.