Predicting coiled coils from protein sequences.
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The probability that a residue in a protein is part of a coiled-coil structure was assessed by comparison of its flanking sequences with sequences of known coiled-coil proteins. This method was used to delineate coiled-coil domains in otherwise globular proteins, such as the leucine zipper domains in transcriptional regulators, and to predict regions of discontinuity within coiled-coil structures, such as the hinge region in myosin. More than 200 proteins that probably have coiled-coil domains were identified in GenBank, including α- and β-tubulins, flagellins, G protein β subunits, some bacterial transfer RNA synthetases, and members of the heat shock protein (Hsp70) family.
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Both Paircoil and Multicoil are limited by the use of a fixed window for coiled-coil scoring, usually 21 or 28 residues.
“However, both of these approaches are limited by the use of a fixed window for coiled-coil scoring (usually 21 or 28 residues) [10].”
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- Authors
- Lupas, A., Van Dyke, M., & Stock, J.
- Affiliations
- Princeton University (US)
- Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544
- ORCID
- Lupas, Andrei
- Venue
- Science
- Published
- 1991-05-24
- Volume
- 252
- Issue
- 5009
- Pages
- 1162-1164
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
- OpenAlex
- W2024645073
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- 21.96
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- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies
- Keywords
- protein structure prediction from sequence, coiled-coil domain, leucine zipper domain, transcription factors, discontinuity regions, tubulin, flagellin, G protein beta subunit, tRNA synthetase, HSP70
- MeSH terms
- Amino Acid Sequence, Amino Acids, Animals, Humans, Probability, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Databases, Factual
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