Morphological aspects of oligomeric protein structures

Prog Biophys Mol Biol. 2005 Sep;89(1):9-35. doi: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2004.07.010.

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.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Dimerization
  • Models, Chemical*
  • Models, Molecular*
  • Multiprotein Complexes / analysis
  • Multiprotein Complexes / chemistry*
  • Multiprotein Complexes / classification
  • Multiprotein Complexes / ultrastructure*
  • Protein Conformation
  • Proteins / analysis
  • Proteins / chemistry*
  • Proteins / classification
  • Proteins / ultrastructure*

Substances

  • Multiprotein Complexes
  • Proteins