Protein Conformation

The characteristic 3-dimensional shape of a protein, including the secondary, supersecondary (motifs), tertiary (domains) and quaternary structure of the peptide chain. PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY describes the conformation assumed by multimeric proteins (aggregates of more than one polypeptide chain).

Year introduced: 1972

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Tree Number(s): G02.111.570.820.709

MeSH Unique ID: D011487

Entry Terms:

• Conformation, Protein
• Conformations, Protein
• Protein Conformations

Previous Indexing:

• Proteins (1966-1971)

All MeSH Categories
Phenomena and Processes Category
Chemical Phenomena
Biochemical Phenomena
Molecular Structure
Molecular Conformation
Protein Conformation
Protein Structural Elements
Amino Acid Motifs +
Degrons
Protein Domains +
Repetitive Sequences, Amino Acid +
Protein Structure, Quaternary
Protein Structure, Secondary
Amino Acid Motifs
Protein Conformation, alpha-Helical
Protein Conformation, beta-Strand
Protein Structure, Tertiary
Protein Domains
Structural Homology, Protein