Exercise on Tertiary and Quaternary Protein Structure
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Tertiary and Quaternary Protein Structure

1. Go to the Protein Data Bank web site.

2. Search for two of the following proteins.
For each, click on Sequence Details and use the information to fill in the table.

protein

kinase

dehydrogenase

trypsin

synthetase

phosphatase

example

1HKC

2DLD

1MTS

1PFY

1BIF

functional class

number of chains

number of residues

number of domains

number of disulfide bonds

number of α helices; residues

β strands; residues

more α or β?

 

 

Answers:

characteristic

kinase

dehydrogenase

trypsin

synthetase

phosphatase

example

1HKC

2DLD

1MTS

1PFY

1BIF

functional class

trans-ferase

oxidoreductase

serine protease

ligase

hydrolase

number of chains; identical?

1

2 identical

1

1

1

number of domains

4

2

1

3

2

number of residues

917

337

245

551

469

number of disulfide bonds

0

0

7

0

0

number of α helices

36; 385

16; 130

2; 10

26; 275

19; 187

β strands; residues

31; 169

22; 55

13; 70

28; 90

16; 67

more α or β?

α

α

β

α

α

 

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