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Quaternary structure
In
biochemistry
,
quaternary structure
means the arrangement of several
proteins
to a
multiprotein complex
. An example are
histones
that arrange in groups of eight to form a
nucleosome
.
See also :
primary structure
--
secondary structure
--
tertiary structure
--
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