RCSB PDB Protein Data Bank A Member of the wwPDB
An Information Portal to Biological Macromolecular Structures
PDB Home |

Item _entity.pdbx_description


Description

              A description of the entity, with the name of the entity
               in parenthesis.

               Maps to PDB compound name.

Category

entity

Item Examples


Example 1:



DNA (5'-D(*GP*(CH3)CP*GP*(CH3)CP*GP*C)-3')

Example 2:



PROFLAVINE

Example 3:



PROTEIN (DEOXYRIBONUCLEASE I (E.C.3.1.21.1))

Mandatory Code

no

Data Type Code

line

Alias Names

Alias Name Dictionary Version
_entity.ndb_description cif_rcsb.dic 1.1

 

© RCSB PDB