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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
52
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-12-28
pubmed:abstractText
Alternative splicing is a sophisticated nuclear process that regulates gene expression. It represents an important mechanism for enhancing the functional diversity of proteins. Our current knowledge of alternatively spliced variants is derived mainly from mRNA transcripts, and very little is known about their protein tertiary structures. We carried out a large-scale analysis of known alternatively spliced variants at both protein sequence and structure levels and have shown that threading is, in general, a viable approach for modeling structures of alternatively spliced variants. An examination of alternative splicing at the protein sequence level revealed that the size of splicing events follows the power law distribution and the majority of splicing isoforms harbor only one or two alternations. We examined alternative splicing in the context of protein 3D structures and found that the boundaries of alternative splicing events generally happen in coil regions of secondary structures and exposed residues and the majority of the sequences involved in splicing are located on the surface of proteins. In light of these findings, we then proceeded to demonstrate that threading represents a useful tool for structure prediction of alternative splicing isoforms and addressed the fold stability issue of threading-based structure prediction by molecular dynamics simulation. Our analysis and the insights gained have helped to establish a viable method for structure prediction of alternatively spliced isoforms at the genome scale.
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pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0027-8424
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
27
pubmed:volume
102
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
18920-5
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-18
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Structural genomics analysis of alternative splicing and application to isoform structure modeling.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology and Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30622, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't