Principles of Protein Structure, Comparative Protein Modelling and Visualisation

GlaxoWellcome Experimental Research S.A.
16, chemin des Aulx
1228 Plan-les-Ouates / Switzerland
ng45767@GlaxoWellcome.co.uk,mcp13936@GlaxoWellcome.co.uk

The 5 first chapters of this course are adapted from the Internet course on protein structure by

J. Cooper, J. Walshaw & Alan Mills

The following chapters are by MC. Peitsch and N.Guex.

Part I: Introduction to Protein structure

• Chapter 1: Secondary Structure and Backbone Conformation
• Chapter 2: Super-secondary structure
• Chapter 3: Side Chain Conformation
• Chapter 4: Tertiary Protein Structure and folds
• SCOP and CATH: Short description of Fold Classification Servers
• Chapter 5: Quaternary Structure

Part II: Protein modelling

• Chapter 6: Comparative protein modelling
• Chapter 7: De novo modelling of G-protein coupled receptors

Part III: Model quality

• Chapter 8: How to evaluate the quality of a model

Part IV: The SWISS-MODEL modelling environment

• Chapter 9: Using the SWISS-MODEL server
• Chapter 10: The Swiss-PdbViewer

Part V: Examples and case studies

• Chapter 11: Autopsy of a PDB file
• Chapter 12: Case studies

Appendices

• Appendix A: Recommended reading
• Appendix B: A few useful URLs