Exploring Protein Structure: Principles and Practice

• Main Author: Skern, Tim (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Learning Materials in Biosciences,
• Subjects: Proteins .; Science education.; Molecular biology.; Teaching.; Protein Science.; Science Education.; Molecular Medicine.; Protein Structure.; Teaching and Teacher Education.; Protein-Ligand Interactions.

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 concep...

Table of Contents:

• 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.