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  • Membrane-embedded structures now available!: Mark Sansom's lab at Oxford has created the MemProtMD database of all known transmembrane proteins embedded in lipid membranes, described in Stansfeld et al. (2015) Structure 23:1350-1361. Links to the structures are now included in mpstruc. Click on the icon, and you will be taken to the appropriate entry in MemProtMD.

Latest new protein entered: 03 Jul 2017 at 21:57 PDT.
Last database update: 03 Jul 2017 at 21:58 PDT

New Structures:
Unique proteins in database = 704
Coördinate files in database = 2244
Published reports of membrane protein structures in database = 1254
(Counts do not include pre-publication structures)
A full list of pdb codes currently in the database is available here.

Unique proteins include proteins of same type from different species. For example, photosynthetic reaction centers from R. viridis and R. sphaeroides are considered unique. Structures of mutagenized versions of proteins already in the database are excluded as unique. Proteins that differ only by substrate bound or by physiological state are also excluded. Structures 'obsoleted' by the PDB are not included.

Total number of PDB coördinate files, including those for unique proteins. This number reflects the fact that published reports of structures often include several coördinate files describing, for example, the protein in different crystal forms, or with different bound substrates.


Pre-Publication Structures (link to mpstruc bulletin board page)
 
A word about the new interface to the protein table.

There are other ways of viewing the data in the mpstruc database besides the hierarchical view presented in the table on this page. The mpstruc database queries page (follow the above link) provides a list of queries on the database, some of which provide tables with sortable columns. Some of the queries may take a few moments. Query results are also available as XML data.

Currently available queries include requesting a list of unique proteins, a list of all published reports, counting unique proteins by year, and counting all published reports by year.

XML Representations

An XML representation provides a convenient machine or human readable format of the portion of the data table that has been made visible, and allows you to build software tools to consume it as you see fit. You can use the URLs adjacent to the buttons below to access the same view the corresponding button provides.

This button generates an XML representation of the currently visible portion of the table.

http://blanco.biomol.uci.edu/mpstruc/listAll/mpstrucTblXml
http://blanco.biomol.uci.edu/mpstruc/listAll/mpstrucMonotopicTblXml
http://blanco.biomol.uci.edu/mpstruc/listAll/mpstrucBetaBrlTblXml
http://blanco.biomol.uci.edu/mpstruc/listAll/mpstrucAlphaHlxTblXml

If your browser doesn’t directly display a nicely formatted XML page, it should provide a "view page source" menu selection that will. It should also provide a "save page" option so that you can download the XML formatted data.

If you’re not familiar with XML and how to use it, a good source of information is available here.

NOTES:

Generated XML uses the following Document Type Definition (DTD):

<!DOCTYPE mpstruc [
  <!ELEMENT mpstruc (caption,groups*)>
  <!ATTLIST mpstruc createdBy CDATA #REQUIRED>
  <!ATTLIST mpstruc maintainedBy CDATA #REQUIRED>
  <!ATTLIST mpstruc copyright CDATA #REQUIRED>
  <!ATTLIST mpstruc url CDATA #REQUIRED>
  <!ATTLIST mpstruc lastNewProteinDate CDATA #REQUIRED>
  <!ATTLIST mpstruc lastDatabaseEditDate CDATA #REQUIRED>
  <!ATTLIST mpstruc timeStamp CDATA #REQUIRED>
  <!ELEMENT caption (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT groups (group*)>
  <!ELEMENT group (name,proteins,subgroups)>
  <!ELEMENT subgroups (subgroup*)>
  <!ELEMENT subgroup (name,proteins)>
  <!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT proteins (protein*)>
  <!ELEMENT memberProteins (memberProtein*)>
  <!ELEMENT protein (pdbCode,name,species,taxonomicDomain,expressedInSpecies,resolution,description,bibliography,
                     secondaryBibliographies,relatedPdbEntries,memberProteins)>
  <!ELEMENT memberProtein (pdbCode,masterProteinPdbCode,name,species,expressedInSpecies,resolution,
                           description,bibliography,secondaryBibliographies,relatedPdbEntries)>
  <!ELEMENT pdbCode (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT masterProteinPdbCode (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT species (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT taxonomicDomain (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT expressedInSpecies (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT resolution (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT description (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT bibliography (pubMedId,authors,year,title,journal,volume,issue,pages,doi,notes)>
  <!ELEMENT pubMedId (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT authors (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT year (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT title (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT journal (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT volume (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT issue (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT pages (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT doi (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT notes (#PCDATA)>
  <!ELEMENT secondaryBibliographies (bibliography*)>
  <!ELEMENT relatedPdbEntries (pdbCode*)>
]>

 
Links to the Protein Data Bank Site
Links to the Structural Biology Knowledgebase Site
Membrane Proteins of Known 3D Structure
(Table description)
Protein
PDB Code Links Reference
(links are to PubMed)
MONOTOPIC MEMBRANE PROTEINS
TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEINS: BETA-BARREL
TRANSMEMBRANE PROTEINS: ALPHA-HELICAL

Description of Table

The table above is initially presented in a collapsed form, and the user can expand different sections of the table, or the entire table, and bookmark different sections of the table, or a fully expanded table version of the page, using the , , , and icons on the left margin of the table section headers.

mpstruc Taxonomic Domain data are derived from the UniProt Knowledgebase, which is based on the NCBI taxonomy database. These taxa can be searched for using 'Text Search of Table', above. The following icons are used in the table, as appropriate:

The table provides useful information about integral membrane proteins whose crystallographic, or sometimes NMR, structures have been determined to a resolution sufficient to identify TM helices of helix-bundle membrane proteins (typically 4 - 4.5 Å). It is based upon Reference is made to all of the protein types whose structures have been determined. We have attempted to make the database as inclusive as possible. If you find errors or omissions, please send a message to .

 

The figure at the top right of the page shows the progress of membrane protein structure determination. The figure may be used freely in seminar presentations provided that the URL and lab information on the image are not removed. We thank Ahmed Bakan for bringing some counting errors to our attention, and Tony Crofts, Kenneth Rudd, and Ilan Samish for bringing missing structures to our attention. If structures are missing, please let us know. Send comments and suggestions to

This database emphasizes structures determined by diffraction methods, although some NMR structures are included. A comprehensive list of NMR-determined structures is available from Dror Warschawski.

 

mpstruc has a new user interface to help accommodate the growing size of the protein data table. The dynamic nature of this new interface is handled by your browser, and so, your particular browser, its configuration, and your hardware configuration all may have an impact on the interface performance.

We've found that, in general, contemporary versions of Firefox, Chrome, and Safari provide the best performance. Internet Explorer performs well, but is a bit awkward when attempting to create a bookmark for this page to open with an expanded table (preparing the proper URL requires a page reload). This may also be an issue for older versions of the previously mentioned browsers.

The Opera browser, while full featured, seems to be the slowest browser of those we've tested. If this is your favorite browser, you may want to bookmark an expanded table version of the page, and avoid using the dynamic features of the table.

Of course, browser providers are providing frequent updates of their products, so these observations may be out of date by the time you read this.

By the way, you can use the icons to bookmark sections of the table. That icon in the table header allows you to create a bookmark for this page with the table fully expanded.

If you discover any issues with this interface, please let us know. We want to make this resource as useful as possible!