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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
Web-based toolkits for topology prediction of transmembrane helical proteins, fold recognition, structure and binding
Hongyi Zhou1, Chi Zhang, Song Liu
1Department of Physiology & Biophysics, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Center for Single Molecule Biophysics, State University of New York at Buffalo, 124 Sherman Hall, Buffalo, NY 14214, USA.
Abstract:
We have developed the following web servers for protein structural modeling and analysis at http://theory.med.buffalo.edu: THUMBUP, UMDHMM(TMHP) and TUPS, predictors of transmembrane helical protein topology based on a mean-burial-propensity scale of amino acid residues (THUMBUP), hidden Markov model (UMDHMM(TMHP)) and their combinations (TUPS); SPARKS 2.0 and SP3, two profile-profile alignment methods, that match input query sequence(s) to structural templates by integrating sequence profile with knowledge-based structural score (SPARKS 2.0) and structure-derived profile (SP3); DFIRE, a knowledge-based potential for scoring free energy of monomers (DMONOMER), loop conformations (DLOOP), mutant stability (DMUTANT) and binding affinity of protein-protein/peptide/DNA complexes (DCOMPLEX & DDNA); TCD, a program for protein-folding rate and transition-state analysis of small globular proteins; and DOGMA, a web-server that allows comparative analysis of domain combinations between plant and other 55 organisms. These servers provide tools for prediction and/or analysis of proteins on the secondary structure, tertiary structure and interaction levels, respectively.
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