Wednesday, 5 March 2014

Protein Data Bank


Assalamualaikum and Good evening..

Today we would like to educate the readers about the Protein Data Bank. The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a repository for the three-dimensional structural data of large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. Besides, the data typically obtained by X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy. Protein Data Bank is an information portal to biological macromolecular structures. Click the link below to go through the portal;


Another application that related to Protien Data Bank is RasMol. RasMol is a computer program written for molecular graphics visualization intended and used primarily for the depiction and exploration of biological macromolecule structures. The software can be download from here; 


Below are the example of RasMol software.





One of the example of biological molecular structure is N1 Neuraminidase H274Y + Oseltamivir.

Here is the image of the structure and data :



Table 1: Summary of structure of N1 Neuraminidase H274Y + Oseltamivir


Molecule Neuraminidase H274Y + oseltamivir
Type Protein
Organism Influenza A virus (A/tern/Australia/G70C/1975(H11N9))
Gene name NA
Scientific Name Influenza A virus
Stoichiometry Homo 4-mer - A4
Mutation N294S

Last but not least, we hope that you get clear view about the Protein Data Bank and RasMol Software. This software is very useful for biologist and biochemist since its are applied in their daily work.
Thats all from us. Thank You.

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