title: From protein structure to function.
abstract: Several databases of protein structural families now exist-organised according to both evolutionary relationships and common folding arrangements. Although these lag behind sequence databases in size, the prospect of structural genomics initiatives means that they may soon include representatives of many of the sequence families. To some extent, functional information can be derived from structural similarity. For some structural families, their function is highly conserved, whereas, for others, it can only be inherited or derived on the basis of additional information (e.g. sequence patterns, common residue clusters and characteristic surface properties).
authors.affiliation: Biomolecular Structure and Modelling Unit, Department of Biochemistry, University College London, UK. cath@biochem.ucl.ac.uk
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Orengo
authors.forename: A E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Todd
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Thornton
mesh_terms: D019295:Computational Biology / Q000639:trends; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry* / Q000145:classification / Q000502:physiology*; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins