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Investigating Protein Sequence-structure-dynamics Relationships with Bio3D-web
Published on: July 16, 2017
Mustguseal: a server for multiple structure-guided sequence alignment of protein families
Dmitry A Suplatov1, Kirill E Kopylov2, Nina N Popova3
1Belozersky Institute of Physicochemical Biology.
Motivation:
Comparative analysis of homologous proteins in a functionally diverse superfamily is a valuable tool at studying structure-function relationship, but represents a methodological challenge.
Results:
The Mustguseal web-server can automatically build large structure-guided sequence alignments of functionally diverse protein families that include thousands of proteins basing on all available information about their structures and sequences in public databases. Superimposition of protein structures is implemented to compare evolutionarily distant relatives, whereas alignment of sequences is used to compare close homologues. The final alignment can be downloaded for a local use or operated on-line with the built-in interactive tools and further submitted to the integrated sister web-servers of Mustguseal to analyze conserved, subfamily-specific and co-evolving residues at studying a protein function and regulation, designing improved enzyme variants for practical applications and selective ligands to modulate functional properties of proteins.
Availability And Implementation:
Freely available on the web at https://biokinet.belozersky.msu.ru/mustguseal.
Contact:
vytas@belozersky.msu.ru.
Supplementary Information:
Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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