Protein Conformation

"Protein Conformation" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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The characteristic 3-dimensional shape of a protein, including the secondary, supersecondary (motifs), tertiary (domains) and quaternary structure of the peptide chain. PROTEIN STRUCTURE, QUATERNARY describes the conformation assumed by multimeric proteins (aggregates of more than one polypeptide chain).

Descriptor ID	D011487
MeSH Number(s)	G02.111.570.820.709
Concept/Terms	Protein Conformation Protein Conformation Conformation, Protein Conformations, Protein Protein Conformations

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Biological Sciences [G]
Chemical Phenomena [G02]
Biochemical Phenomena [G02.111]
Molecular Structure [G02.111.570]
Molecular Conformation [G02.111.570.820]
Protein Conformation [G02.111.570.820.709]

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Bar chart showing 365 publications over 29 distinct years, with a maximum of 25 publications in 2006

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Year	Major Topic	Minor Topic	Total
1996	1	4	5
1997	1	1	2
1998	1	3	4
1999	1	8	9
2000	2	10	12
2001	0	8	8
2002	0	22	22
2003	1	21	22
2004	0	21	21
2005	2	19	21
2006	1	24	25
2007	0	13	13
2008	1	15	16
2009	2	22	24
2010	0	15	15
2011	1	14	15
2012	1	9	10
2013	1	17	18
2014	0	14	14
2015	1	13	14
2016	1	11	12
2017	0	13	13
2018	0	14	14
2019	1	10	11
2020	2	10	12
2021	0	8	8
2022	0	2	2
2023	0	2	2
2024	0	1	1

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Beruldsen F, de Freitas MV, Antunes DA. High resolution mapping of protein motions in time and space with RMSX and Flipbook. Sci Rep. 2026 Feb 20; 16(1).

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Bohanon AL, Browning LS, Piserchio A, Long KJ, Jacob S, Sammons RM, Tavares CDJ, Cho EJ, Ghose R, Dalby KN. Ser500 phosphorylation acts as a conformational switch to prime eEF-2K for activation. J Biol Chem. 2026 Feb; 302(2):111087.

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Guo W, Zhang S, Park JH, Stanton V, Asp M, Herrera H, Tai JB, Yue J, Wang J, Guo J, Kumar R, Botting JM, Wu S, Yan J, Klose KE, Yildiz FH, Liu J. Structures of the sheathed flagellum reveal mechanisms of assembly and rotation in Vibrio cholerae. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Dec; 10(12):3305-3314.

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Paromov V, Uversky VN, Cooley A, Liburd LE, Mukherjee S, Na I, Dayhoff GW, Pratap S. The Proteomic Analysis of Cancer-Related Alterations in the Human Unfoldome. Int J Mol Sci. 2024 Jan 26; 25(3).

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Conev A, Rigo MM, Devaurs D, Fonseca AF, Kalavadwala H, de Freitas MV, Clementi C, Zanatta G, Antunes DA, Kavraki LE. EnGens: a computational framework for generation and analysis of representative protein conformational ensembles. Brief Bioinform. 2023 07 20; 24(4).

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Dai M, Dong Z, Xu K, Zhang QC. CryoRes: Local Resolution Estimation of Cryo-EM Density Maps by Deep Learning. J Mol Biol. 2023 05 01; 435(9):168059.

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Dankwah KO, Mohl JE, Begum K, Leung MY. What Makes GPCRs from Different Families Bind to the Same Ligand? Biomolecules. 2022 06 21; 12(7).

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Jeruzalmi D. The partner-swapping sliding clamp loader exposed. Nat Struct Mol Biol. 2022 04; 29(4):283-286.

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Peng Y, Xu Y, Zhang X, Deng S, Yuan Y, Luo X, Hossain MT, Zhu X, Du K, Hu F, Chen Y, Chang S, Feng X, Fan X, Ashktorab H, Smoot D, Meltzer SJ, Hou G, Wei Y, Li S, Qin Y, Jin Z. A novel protein AXIN1-295aa encoded by circAXIN1 activates the Wnt/?-catenin signaling pathway to promote gastric cancer progression. Mol Cancer. 2021 12 04; 20(1):158.

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Khan MI, Baig MH, Mondal T, Alorabi M, Sharma T, Dong JJ, Cho JY. Impact of the Double Mutants on Spike Protein of SARS-CoV-2 B.1.617 Lineage on the Human ACE2 Receptor Binding: A Structural Insight. Viruses. 2021 11 17; 13(11).

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