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Protein Structure, Secondary

"Protein Structure, Secondary" 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.

The level of protein structure in which regular hydrogen-bond interactions within contiguous stretches of polypeptide chain give rise to alpha helices, beta strands (which align to form beta sheets) or other types of coils. This is the first folding level of protein conformation.


This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Protein Structure, Secondary" by people in Harvard Catalyst Profiles by year, and whether "Protein Structure, Secondary" was a major or minor topic of these publication.
Bar chart showing 941 publications over 31 distinct years, with a maximum of 47 publications in 2005
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Funded by the NIH National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences through its Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program, grant number UL1TR002541.