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Optimization of Synthetic Proteins: Identification of Interpositional Dependencies Indicating Structurally and/or Functionally Linked Residues
Published on: July 14, 2015
[Analysis and realization of the method for predicting physical pathways of allosteric communication in a protein
Xiao-dan Tan1, Zhi-yong Lu, Yong-chun Su
1Department of Biomedical Engineering, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
Abstract:
A fundamental goal in signal transduction study is to understand allosteric communication. The authors present hereby a statistical coupling analysis method (developed by Steve W. Lockless etc.) for quantitative mapping of the global network of amino acid positions in a protein and predicting a set of energetically coupled positions, which may constitute the physical pathways of allosteric communication in a protein family. Based on MATLAB, the authors realized this method and created histograms of amino acid distributions for all 63 395 entries (as of April 2004) in the Swiss-Prot database of eukaryotic proteins and calculated the mean values. The result was similar to that calculated by Steve W. Lockless in October 1998.
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