what is PDB?

[kida_tra]

What is PDB?

[Dr.Stein]

The meaning depends on which field the term is. I study Immunobiology and in my field PDB is "Protein Data Bank", a single worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3D biological macromolecular structure data.

[sdekivit]

The meaning depends on which field the term is. I study Immunobiology and in my field PDB is "Protein Data Bank", a single worldwide repository for the processing and distribution of 3D biological macromolecular structure data.

i totally agrre --> my book 'Biochemistry' by Jeremy M. Berg et al states that the structures of more than 10.000proteins have been elucidated by NMR and X-ray crystallography and that they are stored at the Protein DataBank.

[kida_tra]

So what does the information that are stored inside the pdb files that are downloaded from the protein databank means?

[sdekivit]

structure can be analized, to investigate how the proteins behve and bind to other molecules for example.

[Dr.Stein]

Read more about PDB here: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/

[iri_black]

i know what crystallography is, but what about NMR?

[Dr.Stein]

NMR: Nuclear Magnetic Resonance. An imaging technique that does not use radiation.

For a complete information, simply click HERE

[iri_black]

Thanks, I knew that . I just wasn't thinking in english
Sorry

[Dr.Stein]

Ehehehe...