PDB
Noun
Meaning
Initialism of protein data bank.
(US, politics) Initialism of President's Daily Briefing or President's Daily Brief or President's Daily Bulletin.
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Coordinates from PDB ID: 1N07. citation Kinases act upon many other molecules besides proteins, lipids, and carbohydrates.
Membrane proteins, by contrast, are difficult to crystallize and are underrepresented in the PDB.
Maslin & Swann (2006), p. 246. To determine the degree of fractionation that takes place in a given plant, the amounts of both mainC and mainC isotopes are measured, and the resulting mainC / mainC ratio is then compared to a standard ratio known as PDB."
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden wrote in his book that revelations and new insight found in the PDB are known as "aw s---" moments.
PDB" stands for "Pee Dee Belemnite", a fossil from the Pee Dee formation in South Carolina.
Solved structures are usually deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB), a freely available resource from which structural data about thousands of proteins can be obtained in the form of Cartesian coordinates for each atom in the protein.