Student Information, SP2002

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Lecture Slides and references

Apr 01, 2002: Basic Introduction, PDB Overview, Visualization, Pet Protein Assignment

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References: Biochemistry ; L. Stryer, W H Freeman and Co; ISBN: 071673687X
IMB Jena Image Library; IMB Jena, Germany
Bioinformatics - Introduction; M. Gerstein, Yale
Project Status By the end of the class, you should have been assigned your pet protein. See the list below for the current assignments. During the next week, please familiarize yourself with Netscape as an html editor and look at the PDB information for your protein.

Apr 08, 2002: Secondary Structure Calculation, Structure Classification

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References: Kabsch W. & Sander C. Dictionary of Protein Secondary Structure: Pattern Recognition of Hydrogen-Bonded and Geometrical Features. Biopolymers, 22:2577-2637 (1983)
Colloc'h N. et al. Comparison of three algorithms for the assignment of secondory structure in proteins: the advantages of a consensus assignment Prot. Eng. 6: 377-82 (1993)
SCOP
CATH
Project Status Please add the following information on your protein before next week's class:
  • General information about your protein including one or two Rasmol generated images
  • A section on SCOP and CATH classifications including images of the domain(s) in your structure with some explanation (not just the links from the two sites)

Apr 15, 2002: Structure Determination, Basic Geometry, Structure/Function Assignment

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References: Crystallography Practical Protein Crystallography; D. E. McRee, Academic Press; ISBN: 0124860508 - focusses strongly on XtalView, a comprehensive software package developed by the author. Good and clear definitions of important terms.
Crystallography Made Crystal Clear: A Guide for User's of Macromolecular Models ; G. Rhodes, Academic Press; ISBN: 0125870728 - very good, comprehensive text. A little thin on the mathmatics... might be a plus :)
X-Ray Crystallography tutorial by Bernhard Rupp
Weissig H, Bourne PE. An analysis of the Protein Data Bank in search of temporal and global trends in Bioinformatics, 15:807-831 (1999).
Structure based Functional Assignments SITE/Site Match: Zhang B, Rychlewski L, Pawlowski K, Fetrow JS, Skolnick J, Godzik A. From fold predictions to function predictions: automation of functional site conservation analysis for functional genome predictions. Protein Sci. 1999 May;8(5):1104-15.
TESS: Wallace AC, Borkakoti N, Thornton JM. TESS: a geometric hashing algorithm for deriving 3D coordinate templates for searching structural databases. Application to enzyme active sites. Protein Sci. 1997 Nov;6(11):2308-23.
Fuzzy Functional Forms: Fetrow JS, Siew N, Di Gennaro JA, Martinez-Yamout M, Dyson HJ, Skolnick J. Genomic-scale comparison of sequence- and structure-based methods of function prediction: does structure provide additional insight? Protein Sci. 2001 May;10(5):1005-14.
SPASM & RIGOR: Kleywegt GJ. Recognition of spatial motifs in protein structures. J Mol Biol. 1999 Jan 29;285(4):1887-97.
Mol. Recognition: Kobayashi N, Go N. A method to search for similar protein local structures at ligand binding sites and its application to adenine recognition. Eur Biophys J. 1997;26(2):135-44.
Prot. Side Chain Patterns: Russell RB. Detection of protein three-dimensional side-chain patterns: new examples of convergent evolution. J Mol Biol. 1998 Jun 26;279(5):1211-27.
Project Status The following sections should be part of your project by next week:
  • Basic introduction on your protein including 2 or 3 Rasmol images. You might want to highlight any ligands.
  • A section on the secondary structure assignment as per PDB or dssp
  • SCOP & CATH classifications including some descriptive text. Please look at functional annotations for members of the same family or superfamily. Is there any conservation of function? Are there any analogues with the same function?
  • Experimental details including resolution, R-factor, crystal unit cell dimensions and space group. Add any relevant information from the PDB files experimental details section.

Apr 22, 2002: Structure Alignment, Structure Prediction & Protein Folding

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References: Godzik A. The structural alignment between two proteins: is there a unique answer? Protein Sci. 5:1325-38 (1996)
Holm L & Sander C: Searching protein structure databases has come of age. Proteins 19:165-73 (1994)
Gibrat JF, et al. Surprising similarities in structure comparison. Curr Opin Struct Biol. 6:377-85 (1996)
Shindyalov IN & Bourne PE Protein structure alignment by incremental combinatorial extension (CE) of the optimal path. Protein Eng. 11:739-47 (1998)
Honig B. Protein Folding: From the Levinthal Paradox to Structure Prediction J. Mol. Biol. 293: 283-93 (1999)
Venclovas, Zemla A, Fidelis K, Moult J. Comparison of performance in successive CASP experiments. Proteins. 45 Suppl 5:163-70.(2001)
Koehl P. & Levitt M. A brighter future for protein structure prediction Nat. Struct. Biol. 6: 108-11 (1999)
Protein Structure Prediction - A practical approach; M. J. E. Sternberg (ed.), IRL Press; ISBN: 0199634963 - published in 1996, this book is still a good and comprehensive overview of the field, including sequence alignment searches, secondary structure prediction and ligand docking
Li WW, Reddy BV, Tate JG, Shindyalov IN, Bourne PE. CKAAPs DB: a Conserved Key Amino Acid Positions DataBase. Nucleic Acids Res. 30:409-11. (2002)
Project Status The following items should be added to your project:
  • A list of structural neighbors of your protein
  • A multiple sequence alignment output of these structures generated by ClustalW
  • A comparison between the structural and sequence relationships

Apr 29, 2002: Protein/Ligand Docking, Molecular Mechanics & Dynamics

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References: DOCK: http://www.cmpharm.ucsf.edu/kuntz/dockinfo.html
FlexX: http://cartan.gmd.de/flexx/
FTdock: http://www.bmm.icnet.uk/docking/ftdock.html
Singh, A.P., Latombe, J.C., and Brutlag, D.L. 1999. A Motion Planning Approach to Flexible Ligand Binding. Proc. Intelligent Systems for Molecular Biology 1999.
AutoDock: http://www.scripps.edu/pub/olson-web/doc/autodock
ReliBase: http://relibase.ebi.ac.uk/
Computational Molecular Biology course at UNC Chapel Hill, Alexander Tropsha

Pet Protein Assignments

For some pointers, you may want to look at last year's projects.

Name email Pet Protein
Ahmad E. Ibrahim ahmad_i@hotmail.com 1LRV
Andrea L. Gerken agerken@triadthera.com 1RIE
Chen Wang chen.wang@pfizer.com 1CEN
Elizabeth W. Katt ekatt@cox.net 1YTF
Faming Xu famingxu@burnham.org 1DDF
Georgios E. Marnellos gmarnellos@sequenom.com 1C8R
Gerhart A. Graupner graupner@sunstroke.sdsu.edu 1TL2
Jill C. Kenney jill_kenney@hotmail.com 2BNH
Kevin P. Keegan kevin_keegan@stromix.com 1DIV
Larry E. Cornwell mattiec@abac.com 4HHB
Michelle T. Hoerner mhoerner@prisa.com 2POR
Mike Neubig neubig@salk.edu 3BCL
Polat P. Abdubek pabdubek@yahoo.com 1QJC
Pureza L. Vallar pvallar@amylin.com 2CPK

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