Talk:Protein tertiary structure

Latest comment: 3 years ago by Felix Tritschler in topic Secondary structures are NOT domains!

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I'd really like to see a good citation for the assertion about de novo tertiary structure prediction being feasable as of 2007 - it's been about 18 months since I properly studied this, but the tutors I had then were pretty dubious of it.

Once I've dug out some notes/refs I'll probably expand this a bit - certainly could do with a brief mention of circular oligopeptide structure prediction, which is pretty well establised, IIRC. Spidrak 18:40, 18 February 2007 (UTC)Reply

Massive reorganization of biomolecular structure articles edit

This article was moved from Tertiary structure as a result of a proposal at WT:MCB. Tertiary structure now redirects to Biomolecular structure instead. Antony-22 (talk) 20:32, 10 April 2010 (UTC)Reply

Copyedit edit

Hi, I've finished copy editing this article. Let me know if you would like more work done on it. Regards, Myrtle. Myrtlegroggins (talk) 08:02, 9 December 2013 (UTC)Reply

Copyright problem edit

I've been looking at this article as part of a contributor copyright investigation. A user copied two sentences directly from http://www.elmhurst.edu/~chm/vchembook/567tertprotein.html, one of them is more or less still there ("The tertiary structure is determined by a variety of bonding interactions between amino acid side chains"). Is there another way to word this accurately without using the source's exact wording? Alternatively if I took this sentence out would the text that follows it still make sense? January (talk) 22:25, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

Hi January, sure there is. "Amino acid side chains may interact and bond in a number of ways. The interactions and bonds of side chains within a particular protein determine its tertiary structure." Regards, Myrtle. Myrtlegroggins (talk) 22:35, 7 March 2014 (UTC)Reply
Perfect, thank you! January (talk) 09:36, 8 March 2014 (UTC)Reply

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There is no mention of protein domains within the article. I'm no expert, but I believe they are important when learning about tertiary protein structure. Leaving domains completely out of this article is like leaving out nucleosomes when talking about chromatin; or like leaving out cells when talking about tissues.

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Secondary structures are NOT domains! edit

Domains belong in the realm of tertiary structures. Alpha helices and beta strands are secondary structure elements. Even a beta sheet (a parallel or antiparallel arrangement of beta-strands) is not a tertiary structure, it is a super-secondary structure element. I will not change it btw in order to not get punished for "vandalism". I suggest the original author or a moderator take care of that.

--Felix Tritschler (talk) 13:47, 21 June 2020 (UTC)Reply