title: Morphological aspects of oligomeric protein structures.
abstract: Features of multimeric proteins are reviewed to shed light on the formation of protein assemblies from a structural perspective. The features comprise biochemical and geometric properties. They are compiled on new low-redundancy sets of crystal structures of homomeric proteins with different symmetry and subunit multiplicity, as well as on a set of heteromeric proteins. Crystal structures of likely monomers provide a control group.
authors.affiliation: EMBL Outstation, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, UK.
authors.forename: Hannes
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ponstingl
authors.forename: Thomas
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kabir
authors.forename: Denise
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Gorse
authors.forename: Janet M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Thornton
mesh_terms: D019281:Dimerization; D008956:Models, Chemical; D008958:Models, Molecular; D046912:Multiprotein Complexes / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification / Q000648:ultrastructure*; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000032:analysis / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification / Q000648:ultrastructure*
chemical_list: D046912:Multiprotein Complexes; D011506:Proteins