J'aime C. Moehlman's Week 8

Analyzing Protein Structure

• This week we are using the Bioinformatics for Dummies book in order to analyze the protein structure of gp120.

Chapter 2: Retrieving Protein Sequences for the HIV gp120 Envelope Protein

• Searched the protein knowledge base for the gp120 protein.
• Picked envelope glycoprotein 120 with the accession number of A0A897, its entry name is A0A897_9HIV1.
• We retrieved the FASTA sequence for the fragment:NLTDNAKTIIVHLNESVEINCTRPFNNTRTSXRIGPGQVFYRTGDITGSIRRAYCEINGT

KWNKVLXQVTEKLXEH