SOCKET, at the Woolfson Group, University of Bristol
SOCKET, Woolfson Group, University of Bristol Author: John Walshaw (john.walshaw@bbsrc.ac.uk) Maintenance: Gail Bartlett (g.bartlett@bristol.ac.uk) Locate Knobs-into-Holes packing between alpha-helices in PDB structures SITE UPDATED! 23/08/10 The SOCKET program finds the Knobs-into-Holes mode of packing between alpha-helices (Crick, 1953) which is characteristic of coiled coils. It unambiguously defines the beginning and end of coiled-coil motifs in protein structures and assigns a heptad register to the sequence, highlighting the core-residues with a RasMol script (Sayle & Milner-White, 1995) if required. WWW-server Source-code and executables More about Coiled Coils, Knobs-in-Holes and SOCKET Relevant Links References Crick, F.H.C. (1953) Acta Cryst. 6 689-697 Sayle, R. & Milner-White E.J. Trends in Biochemical Sciences 20 (9) 374 Walshaw, J. & Woolfson, D.N. (2001) J. Mol. Biol., 307 (5), 1427-1450
