Assessing Protein Function Through Structural Similarities with CATH.
Functional assignment
Protein function
Protein structure
Structure classification
Structure similarity
Journal
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.)
ISSN: 1940-6029
Titre abrégé: Methods Mol Biol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 9214969
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
2020
2020
Historique:
entrez:
2
2
2020
pubmed:
2
2
2020
medline:
28
1
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The functional diversity of proteins is closely related to their differences in sequence and structure. Despite variations in functional sites, global structural similarity is a valuable source of information when assessing potential functional similarities between proteins. The CATH database contains a well-established hierarchical classification of more than 430,000 protein domain structures and nearly 95 million protein domain sequences, with integrated functional annotations for each represented family. The present chapter provides an overview of the main features of CATH with emphasis on exploiting structural similarities to obtain functional information for proteins.
Identifiants
pubmed: 32006277
doi: 10.1007/978-1-0716-0270-6_4
doi:
Substances chimiques
Proteins
0
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
43-57Subventions
Organisme : Wellcome Trust
ID : 104960/Z/14/Z
Pays : United Kingdom