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Alsakhen N, Radwan ES, Zafer I, Abed Alfattah H, Shamkh IM, Rehman MT, Shahwan M, Khan KA, Ahmed SA. Computational analysis of bevacizumab binding with protein receptors for its potential anticancer activity. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2024:1-21. [PMID: 38281913 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2024.2307445] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 01/08/2024] [Indexed: 01/30/2024]
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Breast cancer poses a significant global challenge, prompting researchers to explore novel approaches for potential treatments. In this study, we investigated the binding free energy (ΔG) of bevacizumab, an anti-cancer therapy targeting angiogenesis through the inhibition of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), with various proto-oncogenes including CDK4, EGFR, frizzled, IGFR, OmoMYC, and KIT. Our in-silico investigation revealed that hydrogen bonding is pivotal in inducing conformational changes within the DNA structure, impeding its replication and preventing cell death. Molecular docking results revealed the presence of crucial hydrogen bonds and supported the formation of stable bevacizumab complexes. The molecular docking scores for the tested complexes were CDK4 (Score = -7.2 kcal/mol), EGFR (Score = -8.5 kcal/mol), frizzled (Score = -6.9 kcal/mol), IGFR (Score = -7.8 kcal/mol), KIT (Score = -6.5 kcal/mol), and MYC (Score = -8.3 kcal/mol). The binding mode demonstrated vital hydrogen bonds correlated with the observed energy gap. Notably, the calculated binding free energies of the tested compounds are as follows: CDK4 (ΔG = 24275.195 ± 6411.293 kJ/mol), EGFR (ΔG = 363273.625 ± 8731.466 kJ/mol), frizzled (ΔG = 181751.990 ± 28438.515 kJ/mol), IGFR (ΔG = 162414.725 ± 10728.367 kJ/mol), KIT (ΔG = 40162.585 ± 4331.017 kJ/mol), and MYC (ΔG = 434783.463 ± 53989.676 kJ/mol). Furthermore, through extensive 100 ns MD simulations, we observed the formation of a stable bevacizumab complex structure. The simulations confirmed the stability of the bevacizumab complex with the proto-oncogenes. The results of this study highlight the potential of bevacizumab complex as a promising candidate for anticancer treatment. The identification of hydrogen bonding, along with the calculated binding free energies and molecular docking scores, provides valuable insights into the molecular interactions and stability of the bevacizumab complexes. These findings and the extensive MD simulations open new avenues for future research and development of bevacizumab as a targeted therapy for breast cancer and other related malignancies.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Nada Alsakhen
- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, The Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan
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- Department of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, Virtual University, Lahore, Pakistan
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- Botany and Microbiology department, Faculty of Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
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- College of Pharmacy, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- Center for Medical and Bio-Allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
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- Center for Medical and Bio-Allied Health Sciences Research, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
- Department of Clinical Sciences, College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, Ajman University, Ajman, United Arab Emirates
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- Applied College, Center of Bee Research and its Products, Unit of Bee Research and Honey Production, and Research Center for Advanced Materials Science (RCAMS), King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Beni-Suef University, Beni Suef, Egypt
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Xiao Y, Yan F, Cui Y, Du J, Hu G, Zhai W, Liu R, Zhang Z, Fang J, Chen L, Yu X. A symbiotic bacterium of Antarctic fish reveals environmental adaptability mechanisms and biosynthetic potential towards antibacterial and cytotoxic activities. Front Microbiol 2023; 13:1085063. [PMID: 36713225 PMCID: PMC9882997 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2022.1085063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/31/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Antarctic microbes are important agents for evolutionary adaptation and natural resource of bioactive compounds, harboring the particular metabolic pathways to biosynthesize natural products. However, not much is known on symbiotic microbiomes of fish in the Antarctic zone. In the present study, the culture method and whole-genome sequencing were performed. Natural product analyses were carried out to determine the biosynthetic potential. We report the isolation and identification of a symbiotic bacterium Serratia myotis L7-1, that is highly adaptive and resides within Antarctic fish, Trematomus bernacchii. As revealed by genomic analyses, Antarctic strain S. myotis L7-1 possesses carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZymes), biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs), stress response genes, antibiotic resistant genes (ARGs), and a complete type IV secretion system which could facilitate competition and colonization in the extreme Antarctic environment. The identification of microbiome gene clusters indicates the biosynthetic potential of bioactive compounds. Based on bioactivity-guided fractionation, serranticin was purified and identified as the bioactive compound, showing significant antibacterial and antitumor activity. The serranticin gene cluster was identified and located on the chrome. Furthermore, the multidrug resistance and strong bacterial antagonism contribute competitive advantages in ecological niches. Our results highlight the existence of a symbiotic bacterium in Antarctic fish largely represented by bioactive natural products and the adaptability to survive in the fish living in Antarctic oceans.
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- Yu Xiao
- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- International Research Center for Marine Biosciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- Ocean College, Zhoushan Campus, Zhejiang University, Zhoushan, China
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China
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- International Research Center for Marine Biosciences, Ministry of Science and Technology, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China,*Correspondence: Liangbiao Chen, ✉
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- Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Hadal Science and Technology, College of Marine Sciences, Shanghai Ocean University, Shanghai, China,Xi Yu, ✉
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Villalta-Romero F, Borro L, Mandic B, Escalante T, Rucavado A, Gutiérrez JM, Neshich G, Tasic L. Discovery of small molecule inhibitors for the snake venom metalloprotease BaP1 using in silico and in vitro tests. Bioorg Med Chem Lett 2017; 27:2018-2022. [PMID: 28347665 DOI: 10.1016/j.bmcl.2017.03.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/18/2017] [Revised: 03/02/2017] [Accepted: 03/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Snakebites represent an important public health problem, with a great number of victims with permanent sequelae or fatal outcomes, particularly in rural, agriculturally active areas. The snake venom metalloproteases (SVMPs) are the principal proteins responsible for some clinically-relevant effects, such as local and systemic hemorrhage, dermonecrosis, and myonecrosis. Because of the difficulties in neutralizing them rapidly and locally by antivenoms, the search and design of small molecules as inhibitors of SVMPs are proposed. The Bothrops asper metalloprotease P1 (BaP1) is hereby used as a target protein and by High Throughput Virtual Screening (HTVS) approach, the free access virtual libraries: ZINC, PubChem and ChEMBL, were searched for potent small molecule inhibitors. Results from the aforementioned approaches provided strong evidences on the structural requirements for the efficient BaP1 inhibition such as the presence of the pyrimidine-2,4,6-trione moiety. The two proposed compounds have also shown excellent results in performed in vitro interaction studies against BaP1.
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- Fabian Villalta-Romero
- Chemical Biology Laboratory, Organic Chemistry Department, Institute of Chemistry, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Institute of Biology, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Chemical Biology Laboratory, Organic Chemistry Department, Institute of Chemistry, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil; Faculty of Chemistry, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia
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- Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
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- Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
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- Instituto Clodomiro Picado, Facultad de Microbiología, Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Computational Biology Research Group, Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Chemical Biology Laboratory, Organic Chemistry Department, Institute of Chemistry, UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil.
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Salim JA, Borro L, Mazoni I, Yano I, Jardine JG, Neshich G. Multiple structure single parameter: analysis of a single protein nano environment descriptor characterizing a shared loci on structurally aligned proteins. Bioinformatics 2016; 32:1885-7. [PMID: 27153716 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btw082] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2015] [Accepted: 02/07/2016] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION A graphical representation of physicochemical and structural descriptors attributed to amino acid residues occupying the same topological position in different, structurally aligned proteins can provide a more intuitive way to associate possible functional implications to identified variations in structural characteristics. This could be achieved by observing selected characteristics of amino acids and of their corresponding nano environments, described by the numerical value of matching descriptor. For this purpose, a web-based tool called multiple structure single parameter (MSSP) was developed and here presented. RESULTS MSSP produces a two-dimensional plot of a single protein descriptor for a number of structurally aligned protein chains. From a total of 150 protein descriptors available in MSSP, selected of >1500 parameters stored in the STING database, it is possible to create easily readable and highly informative XY-plots, where X-axis contains the amino acid position in the multiple structural alignment, and Y-axis contains the descriptor's numerical values for each aligned structure. To illustrate one of possible MSSP contributions to the investigation of changes in physicochemical and structural properties of mutants, comparing them with the cognate wild-type structure, the oncogenic mutation of M918T in RET kinase is presented. The comparative analysis of wild-type and mutant structures shows great changes in their electrostatic potential. These variations are easily depicted at the MSSP-generated XY-plot. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION The web server is freely available at http://www.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/SMS/STINGm/MPA/index.html Web server implemented in Perl, Java and JavaScript and JMol or Protein Viewer as structure visualizers. CONTACT goran.neshich@embrapa.br or gneshich@gmail.com SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- José Augusto Salim
- EMBRAPA Agriculture Informatics, Computational Biology Research Group, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas 13083-886, Brazil and State University of Campinas/UNICAMP, Campinas, 13081-970, Brazil
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- EMBRAPA Agriculture Informatics, Computational Biology Research Group, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas 13083-886, Brazil and State University of Campinas/UNICAMP, Campinas, 13081-970, Brazil
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- EMBRAPA Agriculture Informatics, Computational Biology Research Group, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas 13083-886, Brazil and
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- EMBRAPA Agriculture Informatics, Computational Biology Research Group, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas 13083-886, Brazil and
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- EMBRAPA Agriculture Informatics, Computational Biology Research Group, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas 13083-886, Brazil and
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- EMBRAPA Agriculture Informatics, Computational Biology Research Group, Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation, Campinas 13083-886, Brazil and
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Recent advances in the understanding of brown spider venoms: From the biology of spiders to the molecular mechanisms of toxins. Toxicon 2014; 83:91-120. [DOI: 10.1016/j.toxicon.2014.02.023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 101] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2013] [Revised: 12/19/2013] [Accepted: 02/27/2014] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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de Moraes FR, Neshich IAP, Mazoni I, Yano IH, Pereira JGC, Salim JA, Jardine JG, Neshich G. Improving predictions of protein-protein interfaces by combining amino acid-specific classifiers based on structural and physicochemical descriptors with their weighted neighbor averages. PLoS One 2014; 9:e87107. [PMID: 24489849 PMCID: PMC3904977 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2012] [Accepted: 12/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions are involved in nearly all regulatory processes in the cell and are considered one of the most important issues in molecular biology and pharmaceutical sciences but are still not fully understood. Structural and computational biology contributed greatly to the elucidation of the mechanism of protein interactions. In this paper, we present a collection of the physicochemical and structural characteristics that distinguish interface-forming residues (IFR) from free surface residues (FSR). We formulated a linear discriminative analysis (LDA) classifier to assess whether chosen descriptors from the BlueStar STING database (http://www.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/SMS/) are suitable for such a task. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis indicates that the particular physicochemical and structural descriptors used for building the linear classifier perform much better than a random classifier and in fact, successfully outperform some of the previously published procedures, whose performance indicators were recently compared by other research groups. The results presented here show that the selected set of descriptors can be utilized to predict IFRs, even when homologue proteins are missing (particularly important for orphan proteins where no homologue is available for comparative analysis/indication) or, when certain conformational changes accompany interface formation. The development of amino acid type specific classifiers is shown to increase IFR classification performance. Also, we found that the addition of an amino acid conservation attribute did not improve the classification prediction. This result indicates that the increase in predictive power associated with amino acid conservation is exhausted by adequate use of an extensive list of independent physicochemical and structural parameters that, by themselves, fully describe the nano-environment at protein-protein interfaces. The IFR classifier developed in this study is now integrated into the BlueStar STING suite of programs. Consequently, the prediction of protein-protein interfaces for all proteins available in the PDB is possible through STING_interfaces module, accessible at the following website: (http://www.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/SMS/predictions/index.html).
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- Fábio R. de Moraes
- Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Gouws LM, Botes E, Wiese AJ, Trenkamp S, Torres-Jerez I, Tang Y, Hills PN, Usadel B, Lloyd JR, Fernie AR, Kossmann J, van der Merwe MJ. The plant growth promoting substance, lumichrome, mimics starch, and ethylene-associated symbiotic responses in lotus and tomato roots. FRONTIERS IN PLANT SCIENCE 2012; 3:120. [PMID: 22701462 PMCID: PMC3371600 DOI: 10.3389/fpls.2012.00120] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/15/2011] [Accepted: 05/18/2012] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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Symbiosis involves responses that maintain the plant host and symbiotic partner's genetic program; yet these cues are far from elucidated. Here we describe the effects of lumichrome, a flavin identified from Rhizobium spp., applied to lotus (Lotus japonicus) and tomato (Solanum lycopersicum). Combined transcriptional and metabolite analyses suggest that both species shared common pathways that were altered in response to this application under replete, sterile conditions. These included genes involved in symbiosis, as well as transcriptional and metabolic responses related to enhanced starch accumulation and altered ethylene metabolism. Lumichrome priming also resulted in altered colonization with either Mesorhizobium loti (for lotus) or Glomus intraradices/G. mossea (for tomato). It enhanced nodule number but not nodule formation in lotus; while leading to enhanced hyphae initiation and delayed arbuscule maturation in tomato.
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- Liezel M. Gouws
- Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch, South Africa
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- Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdam-Golm, Germany
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- The Samuel Roberts Noble FoundationArdmore, OK, USA
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- Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch, South Africa
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- Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdam-Golm, Germany
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- Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch, South Africa
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- Institute of Plant Biotechnology, Department of Genetics, Stellenbosch UniversityStellenbosch, South Africa
- Max-Planck Institute of Molecular Plant PhysiologyPotsdam-Golm, Germany
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de Calais FL, Soardi FC, Petroli RJ, Lusa ALG, de Paiva e Silva RB, Maciel-Guerra AT, Guerra-Júnior G, de Mello MP. Molecular diagnosis of 5α-reductase type II deficiency in Brazilian siblings with 46,XY disorder of sex development. Int J Mol Sci 2011; 12:9471-80. [PMID: 22272144 PMCID: PMC3257141 DOI: 10.3390/ijms12129471] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/02/2011] [Revised: 11/28/2011] [Accepted: 12/13/2011] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The steroid 5α-reductase type II enzyme catalyzes the conversion of testosterone (T) to dihydrotestosterone (DHT), and its deficiency leads to undervirilization in 46,XY individuals, due to an impairment of this conversion in genital tissues. Molecular analysis in the steroid 5α-reductase type II gene (SRD5A2) was performed in two 46,XY female siblings. SRD5A2 gene sequencing revealed that the patients were homozygous for p.Gln126Arg missense mutation, which results from the CGA > CAA nucleotide substitution. The molecular result confirmed clinical diagnosis of 46,XY disorder of sex development (DSD) for the older sister and directed the investigation to other family members. Studies on SRD5A2 protein structure showed severe changes at NADPH binding region indicating that structural modeling analysis can be useful to evaluate the deleterious role of a mutation as causing 5α-reductase type II enzyme deficiency.
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- Flávia Leme de Calais
- Center of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering (CBMEG), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Avenida Cândido Rondon 400, 13083-875, Campinas, SP, Brazil; E-Mails: (F.L.C.); (F.C.S.); (R.J.P.); (A.L.G.L.)
- Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Sex Determination and Differentiation (GIEDDS), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Center of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering (CBMEG), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Avenida Cândido Rondon 400, 13083-875, Campinas, SP, Brazil; E-Mails: (F.L.C.); (F.C.S.); (R.J.P.); (A.L.G.L.)
- Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Sex Determination and Differentiation (GIEDDS), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Center of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering (CBMEG), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Avenida Cândido Rondon 400, 13083-875, Campinas, SP, Brazil; E-Mails: (F.L.C.); (F.C.S.); (R.J.P.); (A.L.G.L.)
- Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Sex Determination and Differentiation (GIEDDS), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Center of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering (CBMEG), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Avenida Cândido Rondon 400, 13083-875, Campinas, SP, Brazil; E-Mails: (F.L.C.); (F.C.S.); (R.J.P.); (A.L.G.L.)
- Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Sex Determination and Differentiation (GIEDDS), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Sex Determination and Differentiation (GIEDDS), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
- Center of Studies and Researches in Rehabilitation (CEPRE), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo, 126, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil; E-Mail:
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- Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Sex Determination and Differentiation (GIEDDS), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
- Department of Medical Genetics, Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo, 126, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil; E-Mail:
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- Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Sex Determination and Differentiation (GIEDDS), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
- Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Rua Tessália Vieira de Camargo, 126, 13083-970, Campinas, SP, Brazil; E-Mail:
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- Center of Molecular Biology and Genetic Engineering (CBMEG), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Avenida Cândido Rondon 400, 13083-875, Campinas, SP, Brazil; E-Mails: (F.L.C.); (F.C.S.); (R.J.P.); (A.L.G.L.)
- Interdisciplinary Group of Studies in Sex Determination and Differentiation (GIEDDS), Faculty of Medical Sciences (FCM), State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), 13083-970 Campinas, SP, Brazil
- Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: ; Tel.: +55-19-3521-1146; Fax: +55-19-3521-1189
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Ribeiro C, Togawa RC, Neshich IAP, Mazoni I, Mancini AL, Minardi RCDM, da Silveira CH, Jardine JG, Santoro MM, Neshich G. Analysis of binding properties and specificity through identification of the interface forming residues (IFR) for serine proteases in silico docked to different inhibitors. BMC STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2010; 10:36. [PMID: 20961427 PMCID: PMC2974730 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-10-36] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/08/2010] [Accepted: 10/20/2010] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Background Enzymes belonging to the same super family of proteins in general operate on variety of substrates and are inhibited by wide selection of inhibitors. In this work our main objective was to expand the scope of studies that consider only the catalytic and binding pocket amino acids while analyzing enzyme specificity and instead, include a wider category which we have named the Interface Forming Residues (IFR). We were motivated to identify those amino acids with decreased accessibility to solvent after docking of different types of inhibitors to sub classes of serine proteases and then create a table (matrix) of all amino acid positions at the interface as well as their respective occupancies. Our goal is to establish a platform for analysis of the relationship between IFR characteristics and binding properties/specificity for bi-molecular complexes. Results We propose a novel method for describing binding properties and delineating serine proteases specificity by compiling an exhaustive table of interface forming residues (IFR) for serine proteases and their inhibitors. Currently, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) does not contain all the data that our analysis would require. Therefore, an in silico approach was designed for building corresponding complexes The IFRs are obtained by "rigid body docking" among 70 structurally aligned, sequence wise non-redundant, serine protease structures with 3 inhibitors: bovine pancreatic trypsin inhibitor (BPTI), ecotine and ovomucoid third domain inhibitor. The table (matrix) of all amino acid positions at the interface and their respective occupancy is created. We also developed a new computational protocol for predicting IFRs for those complexes which were not deciphered experimentally so far, achieving accuracy of at least 0.97. Conclusions The serine proteases interfaces prefer polar (including glycine) residues (with some exceptions). Charged residues were found to be uniquely prevalent at the interfaces between the "miscellaneous-virus" subfamily and the three inhibitors. This prompts speculation about how important this difference in IFR characteristics is for maintaining virulence of those organisms. Our work here provides a unique tool for both structure/function relationship analysis as well as a compilation of indicators detailing how the specificity of various serine proteases may have been achieved and/or could be altered. It also indicates that the interface forming residues which also determine specificity of serine protease subfamily can not be presented in a canonical way but rather as a matrix of alternative populations of amino acids occupying variety of IFR positions.
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- Cristina Ribeiro
- Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Institute of Biological Sciences, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil
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Schoggins JW, Falck-Pedersen E. Serotype 5 Adenovirus fiber (F7F41S) chimeric vectors incur packaging deficiencies when targeting peptides are inserted into Ad41 short fiber. Virology 2009; 395:10-20. [PMID: 19782383 DOI: 10.1016/j.virol.2009.08.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2009] [Revised: 06/17/2009] [Accepted: 08/28/2009] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Adenovirus is a well-established viral gene transfer model system that presents two major hurdles when being considered for cell-specific targeting applications. First is the need to detarget the vector from inherent host binding mechanisms, and second is the need to establish a productive and stable method to retarget the vector to a desired cell receptor. In previous studies we had generated an adenovirus vector platform that lacks the normal targeting attributes derived from the fiber and penton capsid proteins. In the current study we characterized our detargeted Ad5-based vectors (Ad5.F7F41S and Ad5.F7F41SDeltaRGD) as platforms for novel retargeted viruses. The experimental strategy relied on incorporating small peptide ligands into several sites of the Ad 41short fiber knob domain (AB, CD, HI, G and Cterm). Reengineering of Ad41 short fiber resulted either in a bypass to fiber 7 usage, or in a dominant negative packaging/production deficiency phenotype. Under specific growth conditions we could remedy some of the capsid deficiencies and generate high titer viruses. However when examined by Western blot analysis, the resulting viruses were still defective in capsid content. The tandem fiber F7F41S platform has revealed an unanticipated sensitivity of Adenovirus packaging to fiber 41short structural modifications. These studies indicate fiber assembly into an intact virion or fiber influenced capsid stability as a bottleneck to efficient particle production. We also demonstrate that virus particles characterized as mature virions following CsCl banding can vary significantly in capsid protein content. Considering the complexity of virus entry into a target cell, modified "mature virions" may be compromised at the level of transduction not only through the intended modification, but also by virtue of secondary structural packaging conflicts.
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- John W Schoggins
- Weill Medical College of Cornell University, Hearst Research Foundation, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Molecular Biology Graduate Program, 1300 York Avenue, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Ezkurdia I, Bartoli L, Fariselli P, Casadio R, Valencia A, Tress ML. Progress and challenges in predicting protein-protein interaction sites. Brief Bioinform 2009; 10:233-46. [PMID: 19346321 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbp021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 120] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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The identification of protein-protein interaction sites is an essential intermediate step for mutant design and the prediction of protein networks. In recent years a significant number of methods have been developed to predict these interface residues and here we review the current status of the field. Progress in this area requires a clear view of the methodology applied, the data sets used for training and testing the systems, and the evaluation procedures. We have analysed the impact of a representative set of features and algorithms and highlighted the problems inherent in generating reliable protein data sets and in the posterior analysis of the results. Although it is clear that there have been some improvements in methods for predicting interacting sites, several major bottlenecks remain. Proteins in complexes are still under-represented in the structural databases and in particular many proteins involved in transient complexes are still to be crystallized. We provide suggestions for effective feature selection, and make it clear that community standards for testing, training and performance measures are necessary for progress in the field.
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- Iakes Ezkurdia
- Centro Nacional de Biotechnolgia, Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), Madrid, Spain
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Crystallographic structure and substrate-binding interactions of the molybdate-binding protein of the phytopathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri. BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA ACTA-PROTEINS AND PROTEOMICS 2008; 1784:393-9. [DOI: 10.1016/j.bbapap.2007.11.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/27/2007] [Revised: 11/08/2007] [Accepted: 11/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Bahia D, Mortara RA, Kusel JR, Andrade LF, Ludolf F, Kuser PR, Avelar L, Trolet J, Dissous C, Pierce RJ, Oliveira G. Schistosoma mansoni: Expression of Fes-like tyrosine kinase SmFes in the tegument and terebratorium suggests its involvement in host penetration. Exp Parasitol 2007; 116:225-32. [PMID: 17350619 DOI: 10.1016/j.exppara.2007.01.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2006] [Revised: 01/04/2007] [Accepted: 01/05/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Protein Tyrosine Kinases (PTKs) are important molecules in intra- and inter-cellular communication, playing a major role in signal transduction processes. We have previously identified and characterized the molecular structure of a new PTK in Schistosoma mansoni, SmFes. SmFes exhibits the characteristic features of Fes/Fps protein tyrosine kinase subfamily of which it is the first member described in helminths. Herein, we show that genes orthologous to SmFes are also present in other Schistosoma species and the transcript is detected in Schistosoma japonicum. The SmFes protein was detected at all the main life-cycle stages and was most abundant in cercariae and newly-transformed schistosomula. However, no protein was detected in schistosomula maintained in vitro for 7 days. By immunolocalization assays we showed that SmFes is particularly concentrated at the terebratorium of miracidia and tegument of cercaria and schistosomula skin-stage. These findings suggest that SmFes may play a role in signal transduction pathways involved in larval transformation after penetration into intermediate and definitive hosts.
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- Diana Bahia
- Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou (CPqRR), FIOCRUZ, Av Augusto de Lima 1715, Belo Horizonte, MG, Brazil.
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Simões M, Bahia D, Zerlotini A, Torres K, Artiguenave F, Neshich G, Kuser P, Oliveira G. Single nucleotide polymorphisms identification in expressed genes of Schistosoma mansoni. Mol Biochem Parasitol 2007; 154:134-40. [PMID: 17568698 PMCID: PMC1986741 DOI: 10.1016/j.molbiopara.2007.04.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/24/2007] [Revised: 03/30/2007] [Accepted: 04/07/2007] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers have been shown to be useful in genetic investigations of medically important parasites and their hosts. In this paper, we describe the prediction and validation of SNPs in ESTs of Schistosoma mansoni. We used 107,417 public sequences of S. mansoni and identified 15,614 high-quality candidate SNPs in 12,184 contigs. The presence of predicted SNPs was observed in well characterized antigens and vaccine candidates such as those coding for myosin; Sm14 and Sm23; cathepsin B and triosephosphate isomerase (TPI). Additionally, SNPs were experimentally validated for the cathepsin B. A comparative model of the S. mansoni cathepsin B was built for predicting the possible consequences of amino acid substitutions on the protein structure. An analysis of the substitutions indicated that the amino acids were mostly located on the surface of the molecule, and we found no evidence for a significant conformational change of the enzyme. However, at least one of the substitutions could result in a structural modification of an epitope.
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- Mariana Simões
- Laboratory of Cellular and Molecular Parasitology, Centro de Pesquisas René Rachou, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Av. Augusto de Lima 1715, Belo Horizonte 30190-002, MG, Brazil
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Roberts E, Eargle J, Wright D, Luthey-Schulten Z. MultiSeq: unifying sequence and structure data for evolutionary analysis. BMC Bioinformatics 2006; 7:382. [PMID: 16914055 PMCID: PMC1586216 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 306] [Impact Index Per Article: 17.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2006] [Accepted: 08/16/2006] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Since the publication of the first draft of the human genome in 2000, bioinformatic data have been accumulating at an overwhelming pace. Currently, more than 3 million sequences and 35 thousand structures of proteins and nucleic acids are available in public databases. Finding correlations in and between these data to answer critical research questions is extremely challenging. This problem needs to be approached from several directions: information science to organize and search the data; information visualization to assist in recognizing correlations; mathematics to formulate statistical inferences; and biology to analyze chemical and physical properties in terms of sequence and structure changes. RESULTS Here we present MultiSeq, a unified bioinformatics analysis environment that allows one to organize, display, align and analyze both sequence and structure data for proteins and nucleic acids. While special emphasis is placed on analyzing the data within the framework of evolutionary biology, the environment is also flexible enough to accommodate other usage patterns. The evolutionary approach is supported by the use of predefined metadata, adherence to standard ontological mappings, and the ability for the user to adjust these classifications using an electronic notebook. MultiSeq contains a new algorithm to generate complete evolutionary profiles that represent the topology of the molecular phylogenetic tree of a homologous group of distantly related proteins. The method, based on the multidimensional QR factorization of multiple sequence and structure alignments, removes redundancy from the alignments and orders the protein sequences by increasing linear dependence, resulting in the identification of a minimal basis set of sequences that spans the evolutionary space of the homologous group of proteins. CONCLUSION MultiSeq is a major extension of the Multiple Alignment tool that is provided as part of VMD, a structural visualization program for analyzing molecular dynamics simulations. Both are freely distributed by the NIH Resource for Macromolecular Modeling and Bioinformatics and MultiSeq is included with VMD starting with version 1.8.5. The MultiSeq website has details on how to download and use the software: http://www.scs.uiuc.edu/~schulten/multiseq/
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- Elijah Roberts
- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Graduate School of Library and Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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- Center for Biophysics and Computational Biology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
- Department of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA
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Meng EC, Pettersen EF, Couch GS, Huang CC, Ferrin TE. Tools for integrated sequence-structure analysis with UCSF Chimera. BMC Bioinformatics 2006; 7:339. [PMID: 16836757 PMCID: PMC1570152 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-7-339] [Citation(s) in RCA: 462] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2006] [Accepted: 07/12/2006] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Background Comparing related structures and viewing the structures in the context of sequence alignments are important tasks in protein structure-function research. While many programs exist for individual aspects of such work, there is a need for interactive visualization tools that: (a) provide a deep integration of sequence and structure, far beyond mapping where a sequence region falls in the structure and vice versa; (b) facilitate changing data of one type based on the other (for example, using only sequence-conserved residues to match structures, or adjusting a sequence alignment based on spatial fit); (c) can be used with a researcher's own data, including arbitrary sequence alignments and annotations, closely or distantly related sets of proteins, etc.; and (d) interoperate with each other and with a full complement of molecular graphics features. We describe enhancements to UCSF Chimera to achieve these goals. Results The molecular graphics program UCSF Chimera includes a suite of tools for interactive analyses of sequences and structures. Structures automatically associate with sequences in imported alignments, allowing many kinds of crosstalk. A novel method is provided to superimpose structures in the absence of a pre-existing sequence alignment. The method uses both sequence and secondary structure, and can match even structures with very low sequence identity. Another tool constructs structure-based sequence alignments from superpositions of two or more proteins. Chimera is designed to be extensible, and mechanisms for incorporating user-specific data without Chimera code development are also provided. Conclusion The tools described here apply to many problems involving comparison and analysis of protein structures and their sequences. Chimera includes complete documentation and is intended for use by a wide range of scientists, not just those in the computational disciplines. UCSF Chimera is free for non-commercial use and is available for Microsoft Windows, Apple Mac OS X, Linux, and other platforms from .
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- Elaine C Meng
- Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-2440, USA
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- Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-2440, USA
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- Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-2440, USA
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- Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-2440, USA
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- Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California San Francisco, 600 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94143-2440, USA
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Kumar MDS, Bava KA, Gromiha MM, Prabakaran P, Kitajima K, Uedaira H, Sarai A. ProTherm and ProNIT: thermodynamic databases for proteins and protein-nucleic acid interactions. Nucleic Acids Res 2006; 34:D204-6. [PMID: 16381846 PMCID: PMC1347465 DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkj103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 282] [Impact Index Per Article: 15.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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ProTherm and ProNIT are two thermodynamic databases that contain experimentally determined thermodynamic parameters of protein stability and protein–nucleic acid interactions, respectively. The current versions of both the databases have considerably increased the total number of entries and enhanced search interface with added new fields, improved search, display and sorting options. As on September 2005, ProTherm release 5.0 contains 17 113 entries from 771 proteins, retrieved from 1497 scientific articles (∼20% increase in data from the previous version). ProNIT release 2.0 contains 4900 entries from 273 research articles, representing 158 proteins. Both databases can be queried using WWW interfaces. Both quick search and advanced search are provided on this web page to facilitate easy retrieval and display of the data from these databases. ProTherm is freely available online at and ProNIT at .
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- M. D. Shaji Kumar
- Advanced Technology Institute, Inc. (ATI)2-3-13-103 Tate, Shiki, Saitama 353-0006, Japan
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- Advanced Technology Institute, Inc. (ATI)2-3-13-103 Tate, Shiki, Saitama 353-0006, Japan
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- Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST)AIST Tokyo Waterfront Bio-IT Research Building, 2-42 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo 135-0064, Japan
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- Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology, NCI, NIHFrederick, MD 21702, USA
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- Advanced Technology Institute, Inc. (ATI)2-3-13-103 Tate, Shiki, Saitama 353-0006, Japan
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- Tsukuba Materials Information Laboratory3-23-4, Ninomiya, Tsukuba, 305-0051 Japan
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- To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 948 29 7811; Fax: +81 948 29 7841;
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