Talk:Α+β proteins

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The Merge

I do not think this should be merged with Α/β proteins. Though they sound similar, they have some small structural differences. Dog poster 12:20, 12 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Support. Two tiny stubs on similar but strongly related things. They are best discussed together in a single article, e.g. α/β proteins and α+β proteins, until each is big enough to stand on its own. This ensures that the discussion of the differences only happens once. Hans Adler 23:03, 27 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Reject. Putting them under a single heading would be confusing and wrong unless it wasa generic name like "Alpha and Beta containing proteins" but I feel this is somewhat too generic unless this is to be expanded to include lists of proteins? At least by keeping them separate it serves to emphasise the difference. 131.111.184.88 (talk) 19:54, 25 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. I am a bit on the fence here. I would suggest that both these articles should be merged into Protein tertiary structure along with the articles All-α proteins and All-β proteins. However if there was someone who was prepared to make a single article for say protein fold class and merge all the content then I'd also support that. In the meantime it would be good to include images of an example protein from each class. Alexbateman (talk) 13:11, 27 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Support. All articles describing the fold classes are rather short in the present version. It would be best to create one main article and merge them all into that. I can help with that. It would be also good to either add to this page, or on a separate article, a section on the discussion if fold space is continuous or discrete. This could be combined with an example-path from all alpha to all beta (e.g. Grishin 2001) to demonstrate that 3D structural relationships can be complex and change during evolution. --Andreas (talk) 18:47, 28 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Make it happen. This has been open for over two years and it seems that it makes sense to merge. --Walter Görlitz (talk) 04:55, 13 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]