The use of evolutionary patterns in protein annotation |
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Authors: | Wilkins Angela D Bachman Benjamin J Erdin Serkan Lichtarge Olivier |
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Institution: | Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. |
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Abstract: | With genomic data skyrocketing, their biological interpretation remains a serious challenge. Diverse computational methods address this problem by pointing to the existence of recurrent patterns among sequence, structure, and function. These patterns emerge naturally from evolutionary variation, natural selection, and divergence--the defining features of biological systems--and they identify molecular events and shapes that underlie specificity of function and allosteric communication. Here we review these methods, and the patterns they identify in case studies and in proteome-wide applications, to infer and rationally redesign function. |
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