Milner-White EJ. A computergraphical method of describing the shapes of subunit interfaces of oligomers. Analysis of the quaternary structure of concanavalin A and of prealbumin.
Biochem J 1982;
205:353-9. [PMID:
7138508 PMCID:
PMC1158488 DOI:
10.1042/bj2050353]
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Abstract
A new method is described for mapping the shape of the intersubunit contacts of oligomers with identical subunits or pairs of subunits. Plots are generated for the dimer--dimer interactions of concanavalin A and prealbumin, which are both tetramers. Both contacts lie at the junction between the faces of two apposed beta-sheets, but in most other respects the interactions are seen to be different.
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