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Searching for patterns of amino acids in 3D protein structures

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posted on 2023-06-08, 00:16 authored by Ruth V Spriggs, Peter J Artymiuk, Peter Willett
This paper describes the program ASSAM, which has been developed to search for patterns of amino acid side-chains in the 3D structures in the Protein Data Bank. ASSAM represents an amino acid by a vector drawn from the main chain towards the functional part of the amino acid and then computes a graph representation of a protein in which the individual side-chain vectors are the nodes and the intervector distances are the edges. The presence of a query pattern in a Protein Data Bank structure can then be searched for by means of a subgraph isomorphism algorithm. Recent enhancements to ASSAM allow searches to include the following: the main-chain structure in addition to the side-chains; the secondary structure and solvent accessibility of side-chains; allowable distances from a known binding-site; disulfide bridges; and improved generic and wild-card queries. The effectiveness of these approaches is demonstrated by extensive searches of the Protein Data Bank for typical 3D query patterns.

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  • Published

Journal

Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences

ISSN

0095-2338

Issue

2

Volume

43

Page range

412-421

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  • Biochemistry Publications

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  • Yes

Legacy Posted Date

2012-02-06

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