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Proteomics and Protein Structure Introduction to Bioinformatics - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Proteomics and Protein Structure Introduction to Bioinformatics - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
Proteomics and Protein Structure Introduction to Bioinformatics Dortmund, 16.-20.07.2007 Lectures: Sven Rahmann Exercises: Udo Feldkamp, Michael Wurst 1 Overview Proteomics tools for almost all purposes ExPASy Server (Expert Protein
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Overview
- Proteomics tools for almost all purposes
– ExPASy Server (Expert Protein Annotation System)
- Structural Classification of Proteins
– CATH and SCOP databases
- 3D protein structure information and visualization
– wwPDB containing RCSB-PDB – different embedded visualization tools
- Specialized protein databases (e.g., GPCR DB)
- CASP: protein structure predition contest
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ExPASy: Expert Protein Analysis SYstem
- URL: http://expasy.org/
Access proteomics tools Search one of the databases
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ENZYME Database
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Hundreds of Proteomics Tools
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Protein Domains
- “building blocks” of proteins
- functional units
- Major Domain Databases:
– Pfam – SMART
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Structural Classification: CATH
- http://www.cathdb.info/latest/index.html
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Structural Classification: SCOP
- http://scop.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/scop/
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SCOP
- 4 Levels
– Class (alpha; beta; alpha/beta; alpha+beta) – Fold (1000 folds) – superfamily (evolutionary relationship) – family
- Proteins in each family consist of the same
domains
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wwPDB / RCSB-PDB
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Viewing PDB information
Start 3D structure viewers here
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Specialized Protein DBs
- http://www.gpcr.org/
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CASP: Biannual structure prediction contest
- Critical Assesment of (Protein) Structure
Prediction: http://predictioncenter.org/
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Homology Search
- Structure Predication by Homology search:
– find structure in PDB with similar sequence as
query protein
- High sequence similarity implies evolutionary
relation and structural similarity
- However: structural similarity does not imply
high sequence similarity (even 20% is ok)
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Threading
- Try to fit a given sequence on all known
structures
- Background: Angles of bonds between different
amino acids must be in a limited range
- “dual” to Homology modeling
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Ab Initio Prediction
- Molecular Dynamics (“low level”)
– propose a confirmation, compute its stability, modify – very compute-intensive – only for short peptides
- Fragment Assembly
– Assemble predicted 3D-structures of short