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Record Nr.

UNINA9910298404003321

Autore

Skern Tim

Titolo

Exploring Protein Structure: Principles and Practice / / by Tim Skern

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2018

ISBN

3-319-76858-1

Edizione

[1st ed. 2018.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 255 p. 96 illus., 94 illus. in color.)

Collana

Learning Materials in Biosciences, , 2509-6125

Disciplina

572.633

Soggetti

Proteins 

Science education

Molecular biology

Teaching

Protein Science

Science Education

Molecular Medicine

Protein Structure

Teaching and Teacher Education

Protein-Ligand Interactions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. The Rationale Behind This Workbook -- Chapter 2. An Archive and a Tool: PDB and PyMOL -- Chapter 3. Exploring Fundamentals -- Chapter 4. Exploring the Peptide Bond -- Chapter 5. Exploring Secondary Structure Elements -- Chapter 6. Exploring Protein‐Ligand and Protein‐Protein Interactions -- Chapter 7. Examining α-Helical Proteins -- Chapter. 8. Investigating Proteins with β-Sheets -- Chapter 9. Moving from Former to Future Frontiers.

Sommario/riassunto

This textbook introduces the basics of protein structure and logically explains how to use online software to explore the information in protein structure databases. Readers will find easily understandable, step-by step exercises and video-trainings to support them in grasping the fundamental concepts. After reading this book, readers will have the skills required to independently explore and analyze



macromolecular structures, will be versed in extracting information from protein databases and will be able to visualize protein structures using specialized software and on-line algorithms. This book is written for advanced undergraduates and PhD students wishing to use information from structural biology in their assignments and research and will be a valuable source of information for all those interested in applied and theoretical aspects of structural biology.