title: Graphical representation of the salient conformational features of protein residues.
abstract: A composite plot for depicting in two dimensions the conformation and the secondary structural features of protein residues has been developed. Instead of presenting the exact values of the main- and side-chain torsion angles (&phi;, psi and chi(1)), it indicates the region in the three-dimensional conformational space to which a residue belongs. Other structural aspects, like the presence of a cis peptide bond and disulfide linkages, are also displayed. The plot may be used to recognize patterns in the backbone and side-chain conformation along a polypeptide chain and to compare protein structures derived from X-ray crystallography, NMR spectroscopy or molecular modelling studies and also to highlight the effect of mutation on structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry, Bose Institute, P-1/12 CIT Scheme VIIM, Calcutta 700 054, India.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Pal
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Chakrabarti
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D002645:Chickens; D002874:Chromosome Mapping; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray; D003626:Data Display; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004529:Egg White / Q000032:analysis; D005260:Female; D009682:Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D009113:Muramidase / Q000737:chemistry; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017433:Protein Structure, Secondary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D009113:Muramidase