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What biochemical molecule viewer allows for changes in amino acids and resulting tertiary structure?
I am familiar with the Jmol, Rasmol and PyMoL softwares, and was recently introduced to BioBlender. However, I am completely unaware if any of these programs (or others) are capable of loading a .pdb ...
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Solid phase use in HIV rapid tests
I have another question in regards to my HIV test research. The rapid tests like Orasures Oraquick contains a strip of synthetic peptides that are used to represent proteins found in the envelope ...
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Are quaternary protein monomers unique to a particular protein complex?
I know that quaternary protein structures are formed exclusively via non-covalent bonds. My biochemistry professor discussed a viral capsid that is essentially one quaternary structure with 240 ...
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Solution based measurement of Solvent-Accessible Surface Area of macromolecules
The Solvent-Accessible Surface Area (SASA) is a valuable metric for looking at protein folding and protein-protein interactions. However, this measurement is typically done by calculating the SASA ...
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Structure of RAP Antibodies (Specifically RAP-5)
[EDIT] - Have just found not one but two papers that address my structure problem. However they concern RAP-1A, so I guess my question is now what is the difference in structure and function of ...
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Why does RNA adopt an A-form helix?
RNA is known to form an A-form helix, while DNA generally forms a B-form helix under physiological conditions.
From left to right: A-form DNA, B-form DNA, Z-form DNA. Image created by Richard ...
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How do I get the current “camera position” in PyMol so I can reuse it in scripts?
I have a few protein models I want to take pictures of with various ligands bound. It would be nice if I could do it from the same "position", but the only way I can figure out to repeat the same ...
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What implications has the missing 2'-OH on the capability of DNA to form 3D structures?
The chemical difference between RNA and DNA is the missing 2'-hydroxyl group in the nucleotides that build DNA. The major effect of that change that I know of is the higher stability of DNA compared ...
