Flavodoxin fold

Flavodoxin fold

The flavodoxin fold is a common α/β protein fold, second only to the TIM barrel fold. It has three layers, with two α-helical layers sandwiching a 5-stranded parallel β-sheet. The order of strands within the sheet is 21345.

External links

* [http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/data/scop.b.d.cg.html SCOP list of proteins adopting the flavodoxin fold]

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