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From Protein Structure to Function with Bioinformatics.pdf

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8 3D Motifs 209Table 8.3 Web servers for related approachesName and URL Server function DownloadsS-BLESTwww.sblest.orgSiteEnginebioinfo3d.cs.tau.ac.il/SiteEngineWebFEATUREfeature.stanford.edu/webfeatureCompares residue-centred patternsin a query <strong>to</strong> those ina redundancy-filtered subse<strong>to</strong>f the PDB, reports the bestmatchingchains and theirannotationsCompares the binding site ofa ligand-bound structure <strong>to</strong>the entire surface region ofanother structureCompares query <strong>to</strong> precalculatedpoint-centred patterns representinga few dozen functionalsitesS-BLEST can also be usedremotely as a web servicevia the visualizationprogram UCSFChimera (www.cgl.ucsf.edu/chimera). DownloadChimera plug-in forWindows, Linux, MacOSX from Life ScienceWeb: www.lifescienceweb.orgLinux executable for noncommercialuse onlyDownload FEATURE codefrom:simtk.org/home/featuresimple biophysical characteristics. The radial distributions of properties aroundpoints representing the function of interest are compared <strong>to</strong> those around controlpoints, and differences are evaluated for statistical significance. Because values aresummed over spherical shells, however, directional information is lost. TheWebFEATURE server (Liang et al. 2003) (Table 8.3) compares a structure <strong>with</strong> anyof several precalculated FEATURE patterns representing different types of sites.Over a hundred patterns are available, but the set is rather limited in function space;many of them are simply centred on different a<strong>to</strong>ms in a single type of site.Precomputed matches for a specified pattern, a specified PDB entry, or a set ofstructural genomics proteins are also available.The S-BLEST (<strong>Structure</strong>-Based Local Environment Search Tool) web server(Mooney et al. 2005; Peters et al. 2006) (Table 8.3) compares a FEATURE patterncentred on each residue in a query structure <strong>to</strong> a database of such patterns,one for every residue in a nonredundant subset of the PDB. The distribution ofsimilarities for a query residue yields Z-scores for individual database residues.The overall match score of a chain in the database is the average of its K bestresidue Z-scores, where K is a number specified by the user. Chains <strong>with</strong> scoresbetter than a specified cu<strong>to</strong>ff are listed, along <strong>with</strong> their GO, EC, and SCOPannotations and similar results from sequence-based comparisons. S-BLEST canalso be used remotely as a web service via the molecular graphics program UCSFChimera (Pettersen et al. 2004). The client software can be downloaded from LifeScience Web (see Table 8.3).

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