The two main structural motifs for membrane proteins.
The b-barrel (left) is a closed, circular b-sheet composed of membrane spanning b-strands of 8-12 residues each. Known b-barrels have between 8 and 22 strands. This example is the 8-stranded OmpA from E.coli. The a-helical bundle (right) is exemplified
by the protein bacteriorhodopsin. Known a-helical
membrane proteins have from 1 to a few dozen membrane-spanning helices.
Individual helices are typically 18-26 residues long
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