A protein family is a group of evolutionarily related proteins. In many cases, a protein family has a corresponding gene family, in which each gene encodes...

Proteins are large biomolecules and macromolecules that comprise one or more long chains of amino acid residues. Proteins perform a vast array of functions...

The Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome protein (WASp) is a 502-amino acid protein expressed in cells of the hematopoietic system that in humans is encoded by the...

The DAZ (Deleted in AZoospermia) protein family is a group of three highly conserved RNA-binding proteins that are important in gametogenesis and meiosis...

Cdx protein family is a group of the transcription factor proteins which bind to DNA to regulate the expression of genes. In particular this family of...

typically encode functionally related proteins, and sometimes the term gene families is a shorthand for the sets of proteins that the genes encode. They may...

family of antibiotics to which bacteria have evolved resistance. Tc normally kills bacteria by binding to the bacterial ribosome and halting protein synthesis...

the integral membrane proteins appear to have evolved independently several times, and thus comprise different protein families. Like the ABC exporters...

Protein structure prediction is the inference of the three-dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence—that is, the prediction of...

The EHD protein family is a relatively small group of proteins which have been shown to play a role in several physiological functions, the most notable...

namesake globin families as well as in phycocyanins. The globin fold was thus the first protein fold discovered (myoglobin was the first protein whose structure...

transmembrane protein is a type of integral membrane protein that spans the entirety of the cell membrane. Many transmembrane proteins function as gateways...

In molecular biology, a protein domain is a region of a protein's polypeptide chain that is self-stabilizing and that folds independently from the rest...

(rhodopsin-like family). They are all activated by agonists, although a spontaneous auto-activation of an empty receptor has also been observed. G protein-coupled...

Protein structure is the three-dimensional arrangement of atoms in an amino acid-chain molecule. Proteins are polymers – specifically polypeptides – formed...

SNARE proteins – "SNAP REceptors" – are a large protein family consisting of at least 24 members in yeasts, more than 60 members in mammalian cells, and...

The regenerating protein family often abbreviated as Reg family are a group of small secretory proteins that are involved in the proliferation and differentiation...

The FET protein family (also known as the TET protein family) consists of three similarly structured and functioning proteins. They and the genes in the...

belongs to the pocket protein family, whose members have a pocket for the functional binding of other proteins. Should an oncogenic protein, such as those produced...

The WIPI protein family (WD-repeat protein Interacting with PhosphoInositides) is an evolutionarily conserved family of proteins. WIPI proteins contain...

(ATPases Associated with diverse cellular Activities) proteins are a large group of protein family sharing a common conserved module of approximately 230...

proteins are conserved integral membrane proteins of the endoplasmic reticulum found in all eukaryotic cells. VAP stands for VAMP-associated protein,...

The antifungal protein family is a protein family, with members sharing a structure consisting of five antiparallel beta strands which are highly twisted...

molecular biology, the FHIPEP protein family (Flagellar/Hr/Invasion Proteins Export Pore family)consists of a number of proteins that constitute the type III...

proteomics refers to the use of bottom-up proteomics techniques in identifying proteins in complex mixtures using a combination of high performance liquid chromatography...

Superfamilies typically contain several protein families which show sequence similarity within each family. The term protein clan is commonly used for protease...

In biochemistry, globular proteins or spheroproteins are spherical ("globe-like") proteins and are one of the common protein types (the others being fibrous...

a family of related proteins that are expressed in all animal cell lineages and organs. All Ras protein family members belong to a class of protein called...

In molecular biology, the Shroom protein family is a small group of related proteins that are defined by sequence similarity and in most cases by some...

In molecular biology, the calreticulin protein family is a family of calcium-binding proteins. This family includes Calreticulin, Calnexin and Camlegin...