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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
11
pubmed:dateCreated
2001-10-30
pubmed:abstractText
Structural biology and structural genomics are expected to produce many three-dimensional protein structures in the near future. Each new structure raises questions about its function and evolution. Correct functional and evolutionary classification of a new structure is difficult for distantly related proteins and error-prone using simple statistical scores based on sequence or structure similarity. Here we present an accurate numerical method for the identification of evolutionary relationships (homology). The method is based on the principle that natural selection maintains structural and functional continuity within a diverging protein family. The problem of different rates of structural divergence between different families is solved by first using structural similarities to produce a global map of folds in protein space and then further subdividing fold neighborhoods into superfamilies based on functional similarities. In a validation test against a classification by human experts (SCOP), 77% of homologous pairs were identified with 92% reliability. The method is fully automated, allowing fast, self-consistent and complete classification of large numbers of protein structures. In particular, the discrimination between analogy and homology of close structural neighbors will lead to functional predictions while avoiding overprediction.
pubmed:commentsCorrections
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Nov
pubmed:issn
1072-8368
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
8
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
953-7
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Automation, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Bacterial Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Calibration, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Computational Biology, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Databases, Genetic, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Evolution, Molecular, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Fungal Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Internet, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Neural Networks (Computer), pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Protein Conformation, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Protein Folding, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Proteins, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Reproducibility of Results, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Sensitivity and Specificity, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Sequence Alignment, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Sequence Homology, Amino Acid, pubmed-meshheading:11685241-Structure-Activity Relationship
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
Identification of homology in protein structure classification.
pubmed:affiliation
Structural Genomics Group, EMBL-EBI, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article