PDB Viewer is an useful software to show and analyze the protein spatial structure. It provides the user friendly interface to analyze several proteins at the same time. The proteins can be superimposed in order to deduce structural alignments and compare their active sites or any other relevant parts. Therefore, PDB Viewer is a necessary tool in nature science research.
3. 1. Download and Install
• Downloading the PDB files in your own PC
PDB home page
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do
• Downloading Swiss-PdbViewer
http://spdbv.vital-it.ch/download.html
4. Protein structure database: Protein data bank
(PDB)
• The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a repository for the 3-D structural data of
large biological molecules, such as proteins and nucleic acids. The data,
typically obtained by X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy
• The PDB is a key resource in areas of structural biology.
http://www.pdb.org/pdb/home/home.do
5. Get your target protein in PDB
Example :
thymidine kinase (TK)
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23. 4. Tools
Center
Enlarge
Translate Rotate
Distance
between
2 atoms
Angle
between
3 atoms
omega, phi
and psi angles
Identify
atoms
Display groups that are
at a certain distance
from a selected atom
Center the molecule
on one atom
Fit a molecule
onto an other
Mutation
Torsion
24. 4.1 Measure distance between 2 atoms
---Open 1CRN
---Select
---Group Kind
---SS bonds
---Show only
---Side chain
---Label
---Measure the
distance between
2 Cα of Cys which
have disulphide
bonds
---Pick 1st atom
---Pick 2nd atom
---Hit “Esc”
25. 4.2 Measure Angle between 3 atoms
---Press button
---pick center
atom
---pick 2nd atom
---pick 3rd atom
---Esc
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26. 4.3 Measure of omega, phi and psi angles of the
picked amino-acid
---Press “Ctrl”
key + button
---pick 4 atoms
---measure the
torsion angle
of any specific
bond
---Esc1
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32. 4.6 Torsions
---Open---1KIM
---select THM1
---only show THM1
---label it
---color it orange
---Zoom in & Center
---render in solid 3D
---select one atom and
display groups at 6A
---Show & Center
---col---white
---THM1 orange
---Tool
---Compute H-Bonds
---Display
---Show H-Bonds
Distance
---only select THM1
---Show Only H-Bonds
from Selection
---Select
---Pick on Screen
---Gln125 & Tyr101
---color them blue
---Torsion
---pick one atom
---pick 2nd atom
48. 6.2 Enzyme-ligand interaction---Active site
---display only
groups that are
within 10A of
the center atom
of inhibitor
---Center the
molecule
---label them
---Tools
---Compute H-
Bonds
50. 6.2 Enzyme-ligand interaction---Active site
---remove the
other labels,
only label
residues
interact with
inhibitor, and
color them pink
---Display
---Show H-
Bonds Distances
51. 7.1 Structural Alignment-Magic Fit
---Loading sars.pdb
---Loading IBV.pdb
---Color---Layer
---click the reset-
view button
---Wind
---Alignment
---Fit
---Iterative Magic
---aligned residues
are shaded in gray
---show structures
in ribbon
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