title: LIGPLOT: a program to generate schematic diagrams of protein-ligand interactions.
abstract: The LIGPLOT program automatically generates schematic 2-D representations of protein-ligand complexes from standard Protein Data Bank file input. The output is a colour, or black-and-white, PostScript file giving a simple and informative representation of the intermolecular interactions and their strengths, including hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interactions and atom accessibilities. The program is completely general for any ligand and can also be used to show other types of interaction in proteins and nucleic acids. It was designed to facilitate the rapid inspection of many enzyme complexes, but has found many other applications.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University College, London, UK.
authors.forename: A C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Wallace
authors.forename: R A
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Laskowski
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Thornton
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D001665:Binding Sites; D002918:Chymotrypsin / Q000737:chemistry; D006860:Hydrogen Bonding; D008024:Ligands; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D015394:Molecular Structure; D010741:Phospholipases A / Q000737:chemistry / Q000378:metabolism; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000378:metabolism*; D012984:Software
chemical_list: D008024:Ligands; D011506:Proteins; D010741:Phospholipases A; D002918:Chymotrypsin