Searching for Patterns of Amino Acids in 3D Protein Structures
- 1 January 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Chemical Society (ACS) in Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences
- Vol. 43 (2) , 412-421
- https://doi.org/10.1021/ci0255984
Abstract
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.Keywords
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