Feature-similarity protein classifier as a ligand engineering tool.
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SUBMITTER: Maddipati S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC1945244 | biostudies-literature | 2006 Dec
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Feature-similarity protein classifier as a ligand engineering tool.
Maddipati Sridhar S Fernández Ariel A
Biomolecular engineering 20061010 6
Kinases have been often targeted in drug therapy aimed at blocking signaling pathways. However, the conservation of protein structure across homologs often leads to uncontrolled cross-reactivity. On the other hand, sticky packing defects in proteins are typically not conserved across homologs, making them ligand-anchoring sites potentially important to enhance selectivity. Thus, we introduce a hierarchical clustering of PDB-reported kinases according to packing differences. This kinome partition ...[more]
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