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    biology, a protein domain is a region of a protein's polypeptide chain that is self-stabilizing and that folds independently from the rest. Each domain forms...
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    2) domain is a structurally conserved protein domain contained within the Src oncoprotein and in many other intracellular signal-transducing proteins. SH2...
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    This may use either whole proteins or protein domains, especially in multi-domain proteins. Protein domains allow protein classification by a combination...
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  • Thumbnail for Protein structure
    Protein structure is the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms in an amino acid-chain molecule. Proteins are polymers – specifically polypeptides – formed...
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    protein followed soon thereafter by the Krüppel factor in Drosophila. It often appears as a metal-binding domain in multi-domain proteins. Proteins that...
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  • Thumbnail for Solenoid protein domain
    Solenoid protein domains are a highly modular type of protein domain. They consist of a chain of nearly identical folds, often simply called tandem repeats...
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    The SRC Homology 3 Domain (or SH3 domain) is a small protein domain of about 60 amino acid residues. Initially, SH3 was described as a conserved sequence...
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    within many protein structural domains, resulting in an activation of their biological activity. Additionally, the positioning of many proteins are localized...
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  • Thumbnail for Protein kinase domain
    The protein kinase domain is a structurally conserved protein domain containing the catalytic function of protein kinases. Protein kinases are a group...
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  • A DNA-binding domain (DBD) is an independently folded protein domain that contains at least one structural motif that recognizes double- or single-stranded...
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  • Thumbnail for UBA protein domain
    (UBA) domains are protein domains that non-covalently interact with ubiquitin through protein-protein interactions. Ubiquitin is a small protein that is...
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    single polypeptide chain "backbone" with one or more protein secondary structures, the protein domains. Amino acid side chains and the backbone may interact...
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  • Magnetic domain (physics), a region within a magnetic material which has uniform magnetization Protein domain (biology), a part of a protein that can...
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  • Thumbnail for PDZ domain
    domain is a common structural domain of 80-90 amino-acids found in the signaling proteins of bacteria, yeast, plants, viruses and animals. Proteins containing...
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  • Thumbnail for Stirrup protein domain
    the protein domain Stirrup is a domain, found only in found in the domain, archaea. The Stirrup protein domain is found in prokaryotic protein ribonucleotide...
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    A protein family is a group of evolutionarily related proteins. In many cases, a protein family has a corresponding gene family, in which each gene encodes...
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  • A transmembrane domain (TMD) is a membrane-spanning protein domain. TMDs may consist of one or several alpha-helices or a transmembrane beta barrel. Because...
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  • Thumbnail for PAS domain
    A Per-Arnt-Sim (PAS) domain is a protein domain found in all kingdoms of life. Generally, the PAS domain acts as a molecular sensor, whereby small molecules...
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  • Thumbnail for Protein kinase A
    intracellular heterotrimeric G protein complex by protein domain dynamics. The Gs alpha subunit of the stimulated G protein complex exchanges GDP for GTP...
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  • In molecular biology, the protein domain YTH refers to a member of the YTH family that has been shown to selectively remove transcripts of meiosis-specific...
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  • and hydrolysis takes place in the highly conserved P-loop "G domain", a protein domain common to many GTPases. GTPases function as molecular switches...
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    Protein structure prediction is the inference of the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence—that is, the prediction of...
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  • Thumbnail for G protein-coupled receptor
    G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs), also known as seven-(pass)-transmembrane domain receptors, 7TM receptors, heptahelical receptors, serpentine receptors...
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    the regulation of gene expression. The AAA proteins contain two domains, an N-terminal alpha/beta domain that binds and hydrolyzes nucleotides (a Rossmann...
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  • Thumbnail for SAG1 protein domain
    molecular biology, the SAG1 protein domain is an example of a group of glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked proteins named SRSs (SAG1 related sequence)...
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  • Thumbnail for WWE protein domain
    The WWE domains occur in two functional classes of proteins, namely those associated with ubiquitination and those associated with poly-ADP ribosylation...
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    peptides and therefore contain all functional domains of the original proteins. However, other fusion proteins, especially those that occur naturally, combine...
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  • In molecular biology, the WAC domain is a protein domain found on the N-terminus of WSTF protein. Its function is still unknown, but putatively thought...
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  • feature of many spiral galaxies Bar (unit), a unit of pressure BAR domain, a protein domain Bar stock, of metal Sandbar Bar (computer science), a placeholder...
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  • Thumbnail for Pleckstrin homology domain
    Pleckstrin homology domain (PH domain) or (PHIP) is a protein domain of approximately 120 amino acids that occurs in a wide range of proteins involved in intracellular...
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