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Search for Structural Motifs

03/20 PDB101 News

Structural motif similarities between PDB structures can provide valuable functional and evolutionary insights. The Structural Motif service finds structures containing a small number of specific amino acids in proximity. This feature looks for residues that appear within 15 Å of each other; the residues may be located far apart in the sequence or appear in different polymer chains.

The search can be launched using the 3D viewer Mol* or through the Advanced Search>Structural Motif option. Documentation help is available.

This service rapidly searches the PDB using the functionality described in Real-time structural motif searching in proteins using an inverted index strategy 2020 PLoS Comput Biol 16(12): e1008502.

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