title: Surface characterization of proteins using multi-fractal property of heat-denatured aggregates.
abstract: Multi-fractal property of heat-denatured protein aggregates (HDPA) is characteristic of its individual form. The visual similarity between digitally generated microscopic images of HDPA with that of surface-image of its individual X-ray structures in protein databank (PDB) displayed using Visual Molecular Dynamics (VMD) viewer is the basis of the study. We deigned experiments to view the fractal nature of proteins at different aggregate scales. Intensity based multi-fractal dimensions (ILMFD) extracted from various planes of digital microscopic images of protein aggregates were used to characterize HDPA into different classes. Moreover, the ILMFD parameters extracted from aggregates show similar classification pattern to digital images of protein surface displayed by VMD viewer using PDB entry. We discuss the use of irregular patterns of heat-denatured aggregate proteins to understand various surface properties in native proteins.
authors.affiliation: Indian Institute of Information Technology, Allahabad, India. tlahiri@iiita.ac.in
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authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Lahiri
authors.forename: Hrishikesh
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Mishra
authors.forename: Subrata
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sarkar
authors.forename: Krishna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Misra
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