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. 1998 Sep;7(9):1851–1856. doi: 10.1002/pro.5560070901

Class-directed structure determination: foundation for a protein structure initiative.

T C Terwilliger 1, G Waldo 1, T S Peat 1, J M Newman 1, K Chu 1, J Berendzen 1
PMCID: PMC2144164  PMID: 9761466

Abstract

The recent sequencing of many complete genomes, combined with the development of methods that allow rapid structure determination for many proteins, has changed the way in which protein structure determinations can be approached. One-by-one determinations of individual protein structures will soon be augmented by class-directed structure analyses in which a group of proteins is targeted and structures of representative members are determined and used to represent the entire group. Such a shift in approach would be the foundation for a broad protein structure initiative targeting classes of proteins important for biotechnology and for a fundamental understanding of protein function.

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