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WatCon: A Python Tool for Analysis of Conserved Water Networks Across Protein Families
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Abstract
Water structure is crucially important to protein function and catalysis and can be conserved throughout related proteins despite differences in sequence. The complex hydrogen-bonding networks formed by water molecules and protein residues have been studied extensively, and graph-theory-based methods have frequently been used to describe these networks. Although there exist a number of tools which can be used to track water positions and networks, corresponding methods for easily analyzing complex water network structure across related proteins are limited. To address this challenge, we present here a new tool, WatCon, an open-source Python package which can be used to analyze water positions and water network structure across protein families using both dynamic and static structural information. Importantly, WatCon can be used to classify conservation of water networks, characterize water networks across structures, and project subsequent results for easy visual interpretation. To illustrate WatCon usage, we provide five example applications illustrating WatCon analyses of static structures, dynamic trajectories, and cross-family analysis. This in turn showcases the utility of WatCon for enhancing our understanding of biochemical systems, predicting water hotspots of potential relevance to protein engineering and predicting pathogenic mutations. WatCon can be downloaded at https://github.com/kamerlinlab/WatCon and is available under the GNU General Public License v3.0.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Brownless, A.-L. R., Harrison-Rawn, T., & Kamerlin, S. C. L.
- Affiliations
- Georgia Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kamerlin, Shina C. L.
- Venue
- JACS Au
- Publisher
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Published
- 2025-11-20
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 12
- Pages
- 6379-6395
- ISSN
- 2691-3704 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC12728608
- OpenAlex
- W4416394720
- Cited by
- 2
- References
- 1
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2
- FWCI
- 0.60
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- JACS Au (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- ChemRxiv (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion, cc-by-sa)
- Lund University Publications (Lund University) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Vetenskapsrådet (2022-06725)
- Georgia Research Alliance
- Vasser Woolley Foundation
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Structural Biology › Enzyme Structure and Function
- Life Sciences › Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics › Drug Discovery › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
- Keywords
- hydrogen bond network, protein families, graph theory, protein dynamics, protein engineering, pathogenic variants, open-source Python package
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