Structural
biology is the study of the molecular structure and dynamics of biological macromolecules, particularly proteins and nucleic acids, and how alterations in their structures affect their function. Structural
biology incorporates the principles of molecular biology,
biochemistry and biophysics. Structural
biology is a branch of molecular biology, biochemistry, and biophysics concerned with the molecular structure of biological
macromolecules (especially proteins, made up of amino acids, RNA or DNA, made up of nucleotides, membranes, made up of lipids) how they acquire the structures they have, and how alterations in their structures affect their function. This subject is of great interest to biologists because
macromolecules carry out most of the functions of cells, and it is only by coiling into specific three-dimensional shapes that they are able to perform these functions. This architecture, the "tertiary structure" of molecules, depends in a complicated way on each molecule's basic composition, or "primary structure." A third approach that structural biologists take to understanding structure is
bioinformatics to look for patterns among the diverse sequences that give rise to particular shapes. Researchers often can deduce aspects of the structure of integral membrane proteins based on the membrane
topology predicted by hydrophobicity analysis. See
protein structure prediction.
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