title: Secondary structure prediction and protein design.
abstract: For non-homologous proteins, and after cross-validation, the methods reviewed in this article exhibit a probability index (percentage of correctly predicted residues per predicted residues) of 59-65.5% according to the methods employed with a standard deviation of 7% for three conformational states: alpha-helix, beta-strand and coil. These present limitations in the accuracy of prediction are related both to the limited number of known structures and to the effect of long-range interactions. The methods based on sequence similarity can improve the accuracy of prediction by expressing the homology of the protein to be predicted explicitly with proteins in the database. Under these circumstances, the probability index can reach 87% with a standard deviation of 6.6%. This property was used for modelling homologous proteins by assisting in amino acid sequence alignments. Examples will be given for the alignment of serine proteinases.
authors.affiliation: Unité d'Ingénierie des protéines, Biotechnologies, INRA 78352 Jouy-en-Josas, France.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Garnier
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Levin
authors.forename: J F
authors.initials: JF
authors.lastname: Gibrat
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Biou
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015195:Drug Design; D006801:Humans; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010363:Pattern Recognition, Automated; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D012689:Sequence Homology, Nucleic Acid; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases / Q000737:chemistry
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins; D012697:Serine Endopeptidases