title: CPAD, Curated Protein Aggregation Database: A Repository of Manually Curated Experimental Data on Protein and Peptide Aggregation.
abstract: Accurate distinction between peptide sequences that can form amyloid-fibrils or amorphous β-aggregates, identification of potential aggregation prone regions in proteins, and prediction of change in aggregation rate of a protein upon mutation(s) are critical to research on protein misfolding diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, as well as biotechnological production of protein based therapeutics. We have developed a Curated Protein Aggregation Database (CPAD), which has collected results from experimental studies performed by scientific community aimed at understanding protein/peptide aggregation. CPAD contains more than 2300 experimentally observed aggregation rates upon mutations in known amyloidogenic proteins. Each entry includes numerical values for the following parameters: change in rate of aggregation as measured by fluorescence intensity or turbidity, name and source of the protein, Uniprot and Protein Data Bank codes, single point as well as multiple mutations, and literature citation. The data in CPAD has been supplemented with five different types of additional information: (i) Amyloid fibril forming hexa-peptides, (ii) Amorphous β-aggregating hexa-peptides, (iii) Amyloid fibril forming peptides of different lengths, (iv) Amyloid fibril forming hexa-peptides whose crystal structures are available in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) and (v) Experimentally validated aggregation prone regions found in amyloidogenic proteins. Furthermore, CPAD is linked to other related databases and resources, such as Uniprot, Protein Data Bank, PUBMED, GAP, TANGO, WALTZ etc. We have set up a web interface with different search and display options so that users have the ability to get the data in multiple ways. CPAD is freely available at http://www.iitm.ac.in/bioinfo/CPAD/. The potential applications of CPAD have also been discussed.
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Studies in Crystallography and Biophysics and Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility, University of Madras, Chennai, 600025, India.
authors.forename: A Mary
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Thangakani
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Metha School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Nagarajan
authors.affiliation: Biotherapeutics Pharmaceutical Sciences, Pfizer Inc., 700 Chesterfield Parkway West, Chesterfield, Missouri, 63017, United States of America.
authors.forename: Sandeep
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Metha School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sakthivel
authors.affiliation: Center for Advanced Studies in Crystallography and Biophysics and Bioinformatics Infrastructure Facility, University of Madras, Chennai, 600025, India.
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Velmurugan
authors.affiliation: Department of Biotechnology, Bhupat and Jyoti Metha School of Biosciences, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India.
authors.forename: M Michael
authors.initials: MM
authors.lastname: Gromiha
mesh_terms: D058227:Amyloidogenic Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D030541:Databases, Genetic; D030562:Databases, Protein; D006801:Humans; D009154:Mutation; D010455:Peptides / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D066263:Protein Aggregation, Pathological / Q000235:genetics; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D013329:Structure-Activity Relationship; D064878:Web Browser
chemical_list: D058227:Amyloidogenic Proteins; D010455:Peptides; D011506:Proteins