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Development of METAL‐ACTIVE SITE and ZINCCLUSTER tool to predict active site pockets
Authors:M Ajitha  K Sundar  S Arul Mugilan  S Arumugam
Institution:1. Kalasalingam University, Krishnankoil, Tamil Nadu, India;2. Raja Doraisingam Government Arts College, Sivaganga, Tamil Nadu, India
Abstract:The advent of whole genome sequencing leads to increasing number of proteins with known amino acid sequences. Despite many efforts, the number of proteins with resolved three dimensional structures is still low. One of the challenging tasks the structural biologists face is the prediction of the interaction of metal ion with any protein for which the structure is unknown. Based on the information available in Protein Data Bank, a site (METALACTIVE INTERACTION) has been generated which displays information for significant high preferential and low‐preferential combination of endogenous ligands for 49 metal ions. User can also gain information about the residues present in the first and second coordination sphere as it plays a major role in maintaining the structure and function of metalloproteins in biological system. In this paper, a novel computational tool (ZINCCLUSTER) is developed, which can predict the zinc metal binding sites of proteins even if only the primary sequence is known. The purpose of this tool is to predict the active site cluster of an uncharacterized protein based on its primary sequence or a 3D structure. The tool can predict amino acids interacting with a metal or vice versa. This tool is based on the occurrence of significant triplets and it is tested to have higher prediction accuracy when compared to that of other available techniques.
Keywords:Cluster Finder  Ligand Finder  metal binding sites  metalloprotein  METALACTIVE INTERACTION  uncharacterized protein  ZINCCLUSTER
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