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Using an alignment of fragment strings for comparing protein structures.

Iddo Friedberg1, Tim Harder, Rachel Kolodny

  • 1Program in Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, CA, USA. idoerg@burnham.org

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)
|January 24, 2007
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This study introduces KL-strings, a novel 1D protein structure representation. This method enhances protein structure comparison and classification by adding resolution to traditional descriptions.

Area of Science:

  • Computational Biology
  • Structural Bioinformatics
  • Biophysics

Background:

  • Traditional protein structure comparison relies heavily on 3D coordinates.
  • 1D string representations of local protein structure can capture valuable structural information.
  • Existing sequence comparison tools are highly developed, suggesting potential for 1D structure analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the information content of various 1D protein structure representations.
  • To develop and evaluate a novel 1D representation for protein structure comparison.
  • To assess the added value of this new representation over traditional methods.

Main Methods:

  • Development of a structure fragment library termed KL-strings for 1D protein structure representation.

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  • Creation of an infrastructure for comparing protein structures using this 1D representation.
  • Evaluation using a pairwise alignment benchmark to assess accuracy in recognizing structural similarities.

    • Main Results:

    • KL-strings provide a more resolved description than traditional three-state (helix, strand, coil) secondary structure.
    • The 1D representation demonstrates high accuracy in identifying structural similarities.
    • The KL-string approach offers significant added value for protein structure analysis.

    Conclusions:

    • KL-strings offer a powerful 1D representation for protein structure comparison and classification.
    • This method enhances the resolution of structural descriptions.
    • Immediate applications include fast structure recognition, fold prediction, and classification.