Cystine-Knot Miniproteins
"Cystine-Knot Miniproteins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A structurally-related family of small proteins that form a stable tertiary fold pattern which is supported by a series of disulfide bonds. The arrangement of disulfide bonds between the CYSTEINE moieties results in a knotted structure which is unique to this family of proteins.
| Descriptor ID |
D057771
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.644.132 D12.776.217
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