title: GIS: a comprehensive source for protein structure similarities.
abstract: A web service for analysis of protein structures that are sequentially or non-sequentially similar was generated. Recently, the non-sequential structure alignment algorithm GANGSTA+ was introduced. GANGSTA+ can detect non-sequential structural analogs for proteins stated to possess novel folds. Since GANGSTA+ ignores the polypeptide chain connectivity of secondary structure elements (i.e. alpha-helices and beta-strands), it is able to detect structural similarities also between proteins whose sequences were reshuffled during evolution. GANGSTA+ was applied in an all-against-all comparison on the ASTRAL40 database (SCOP version 1.75), which consists of >10,000 protein domains yielding about 55 x 10(6) possible protein structure alignments. Here, we provide the resulting protein structure alignments as a public web-based service, named GANGSTA+ Internet Services (GIS). We also allow to browse the ASTRAL40 database of protein structures with GANGSTA+ relative to an externally given protein structure using different constraints to select specific results. GIS allows us to analyze protein structure families according to the SCOP classification scheme. Additionally, users can upload their own protein structures for pairwise protein structure comparison, alignment against all protein structures of the ASTRAL40 database (SCOP version 1.75) or symmetry analysis. GIS is publicly available at http://agknapp.chemie.fu-berlin.de/gplus.
authors.affiliation: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Fabeckstrasse 36a, 14195 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Aysam
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Guerler
authors.forename: Ernst-Walter
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Knapp
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D003196:Computer Graphics; D030562:Databases, Protein; D020407:Internet; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary; D012984:Software; D040681:Structural Homology, Protein
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