Protein structure and dynamics

Náray-Szabó, Gábor and Perczel, András (2014) Protein structure and dynamics. International Journal of Terraspace Science and Engineering, 6 (1). pp. 7-16. ISSN 19433514

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Abstract

Proteins are essential components of biological processes, this explains why understanding their structure, function and dynamics is so important. In the following, we give an overview on various methods for the determination of three-dimensional structure and dynamics of proteins. We discuss the most important experimental methods, X-ray diffraction and NMR spectroscopy, as well as computer modelling techniques and their application to the construction of graphics models, which can be inspected visually. We also treat prediction as well as molecular graphics representation of protein structures. We devote special attention to dynamics, where time scales of protein movement, structures and interactions are discussed. We wish to demonstrate that protein structure determination and computer representation is now at a very high degree of sophistication and reliability.

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