This material was obtained from Birkbeck College. We greatly appreciate it.

Tertiary Structure

We now study the various ways in which secondary and super-secondary structures are associated in real proteins, to form the next level of organisation, generally referred to as tertiary structure.

There are various arrangements of alpha-helix, beta-sheet, and loops which fold into distinct entities, often referred to as domains (although the concept of a `domain' is not particularly well defined).

Overview
Domains may be considered as independent folding units
Membrane Proteins
Fibrous and Structural Proteins

Credits

We wish to thank the following for the material incorporated into this chapter

Roger Sayle, GLAXO UK
Peer Bork at EMBL-Heidelberg, DE
Annalisa Pastore at EMBL-Heidelberg, DE
Manuel Peitsch at GLAXO, Geneva, CH
Members of the BSM group, University College, UK
R.Sowdhamini, ICRF, Birkbeck College,UK
Stephen Rufino, ICRF, Birkbeck College,UK