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SUBMITTER: Michalopoulos I
PROVIDER: S-EPMC308794 | biostudies-literature | 2004 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Michalopoulos Ioannis I Torrance Gilleain M GM Gilbert David R DR Westhead David R DR
Nucleic acids research 20040101 Database issue
The TOPS database holds topological descriptions of protein structures. These compact and highly abstract descriptions reduce the protein fold to a sequence of Secondary Structure Elements (SSEs) and three sets of pairwise relationships between them, hydrogen bonds relating parallel and anti- parallel beta strands, spatial adjacencies relating neighbouring SSEs, and the chiralities of selected supersecondary structures, including connections in betaalphabeta units and between parallel alpha heli ...[more]