A COMPUTER-GRAPHICAL METHOD OF DESCRIBING THE SHAPES OF SUBUNIT INTERFACES OF OLIGOMERS - ANALYSIS OF THE QUATERNARY STRUCTURE OF CONCANAVALIN-A AND OF PRE-ALBUMIN

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MILNERWHITE, EJ [1 ]
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[1] UNIV GLASGOW, DEPT BIOCHEM, GLASGOW G12 8QQ, SCOTLAND
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10.1042/bj2050353
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Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
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A new method is described for mapping the shape of the intersubunit contacts of oligomers with identical subunits or pairs of subunits. Plots are generated for the dimer-dimer interactions of concanavalin A and prealbumin, which are both tetramers. Both contacts lie at the junction between the faces of 2 apposed .beta.-sheets, but in most other respects the interactions are seen to be different.
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