title: DomIns: a web resource for domain insertions in known protein structures.
abstract: Proteins can be formed by single or multiple domains. The process of recombination at the molecular level has generated a wide variety of multi-domain proteins with specific domain organization to cater to the functional requirements of an organism. The functional and structural costs of inserting a domain into another means that multi-domain proteins are usually formed by covalently linking the N-terminus of one domain to the C-terminus of the preceding domain. While this is true in a large proportion of multi-domain proteins, we find a significant fraction of proteins that are the result of domain insertion. The inserted domain breaks the sequence contiguity of the domain into which it is inserted leading to a novel domain organization. This web resource aims to document domain insertions in known protein structures that are classified in the SCOP database. The web server can be accessed from http://stash.mrc-lmb.cam. ac.uk/DomIns/.
authors.affiliation: The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SA, UK.
authors.forename: R Aroul
authors.initials: RA
authors.lastname: Selvam
authors.forename: Rajkumar
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sasidharan
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D019295:Computational Biology; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D011995:Recombination, Genetic
chemical_list: D011506:Proteins