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Amino Acids in Nine Ligand-Prefer Ramachandran Regions.


ABSTRACT: Several secondary structures, such as ?-helix and left-handed helix, have been frequently identified at protein ligand-binding sites. A secondary structure is considered to be constrained to a specific region of dihedral angles. However, a comprehensive analysis of the correlation between main chain dihedral angles and ligand-binding sites has not been performed. We undertook an extensive analysis of the relationship between dihedral angles in proteins and their distance to ligand-binding sites, frequency of occurrence, molecular potential energy, amino acid composition, van der Waals contacts, and hydrogen bonds with ligands. The results showed that the values of dihedral angles have a strong preference for ligand-binding sites at certain regions in the Ramachandran plot. We discovered that amino acids preceding the ligand-prefer ?/? box residues are exposed more to solvents, whereas amino acids following ligand-prefer ?/? box residues form more hydrogen bonds and van der Waals contacts with ligands. Our method exhibited a similar performance compared with the program Ligsite-csc for both ligand-bound structures and ligand-free structures when just one ligand-binding site was predicted. These results should be useful for the prediction of protein ligand-binding sites and for analysing the relationship between structure and function.

SUBMITTER: Cao C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4602322 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Amino Acids in Nine Ligand-Prefer Ramachandran Regions.

Cao Chen C   Wang Lincong L   Chen Xiaoyang X   Zou Shuxue S   Wang Guishen G   Xu Shutan S  

BioMed research international 20150929


Several secondary structures, such as π-helix and left-handed helix, have been frequently identified at protein ligand-binding sites. A secondary structure is considered to be constrained to a specific region of dihedral angles. However, a comprehensive analysis of the correlation between main chain dihedral angles and ligand-binding sites has not been performed. We undertook an extensive analysis of the relationship between dihedral angles in proteins and their distance to ligand-binding sites,  ...[more]

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