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Protein & Enzyme Links

Proteins and Enzymes
 
 
The Intein Database - http://www.neb.com/inteins/intein_intro.html  
Protein splicing tutorial and database - from New England Biolabs.
 
 
The Chaperonin Home Page - http://bioc09.uthscsa.edu/~seale/Chap/chap.html  
A repository for information about the chaperonin class of heat shock proteins (GroEL and GroEL).
 
Metalloprotein Database and Browser - http://metallo.scripps.edu  
A structural database of metal-binding sites in metalloproteins, including an interactive search and visualization interface - from The Scripps Research Institute.
 
ATPases Associated with Cellular Activities (AAA) - http://yeamob.pci.chemie.uni-tuebingen.de/Default.html  
Information and databases on proteins of AAA protein superfamily, found in all organisms and essential for cell cycle, vesicular transport, mitochondrial functions, peroxisome assembly, and proteolysis - from the Univ. of Tübingen.
 
Histone Sequence Database - http://genome.nhgri.nih.gov/histones/  
Compendium of histone protein sequence data - from the National Human Genome Research Inst.
 
 
Histone Acetyltransferase - http://www.mdanderson.org/%7Egenedev/Bone/hathome.html  
A resource dedicated to proteins that acetylate histones.
 
Cytochrome P450 Reductase - http://www.uky.edu/Pharmacy/ps/porter/CPR.htm  
These pages describe the biology, enzymology, and structure of cytochrome P450 reductase, an unusual electron transfer flavoprotein.
 
Squalene Monooxygenase (Squalene Epoxidase) - http://www.uky.edu/Pharmacy/ps/porter/squalene_monooxygenase.htm  
These pages describe a key enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis, and discuss its structure, sequence, and biology.
 
Codon Usage in the Cytochrome P450 Superfamily - http://www.uky.edu/Pharmacy/ps/porter/p450_codon_usage.htm  
These pages evaluate eucaryotic codon usage and relate it to a variety of possible biological parameters.
 
Enzyme Kinetics - http://jeffline.tju.edu/CWIS/DEPT/biochemistry/kinetics/HTML/INDEX.HTML  
Excellent tutorial from Thomas Jefferson University.
 
Protein Kinases - http://www.proteinkinase.de  
Protein kinases, important enzymes in cellular function, structural and regulatory properties, protocols, links, literature, books, biochemistry.
 
Biophysics and Biochemistry of Motor Proteins - http://www.phys.ualberta.ca/~biophys/banff2000/  
Website for the Banff 2000 workshop - Biophysics and Biochemistry of Motor Proteins. This workshop is intended to bring together bioscientists in related disciplines to discuss the outstanding problems with molecular motors such as kinesin, myosin and dynein.
 
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) - http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/  
Archive of experimentally-determined, biological macromolecule 3-D structures from the Brookhaven National Laboratory.

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