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Assessing the local structural quality of transmembrane protein models using statistical potentials (QMEANBrane)

Studer, Gabriel and Biasini, Marco and Schwede, Torsten. (2014) Assessing the local structural quality of transmembrane protein models using statistical potentials (QMEANBrane). Bioinformatics, Vol. 30, H. 17 , i505-i511.

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Abstract

Motivation: Membrane proteins are an important class of biological macromolecules involved in many cellular key processes including signalling and transport. They account for one third of genes in the human genome and <50% of current drug targets. Despite their importance, experimental structural data are sparse, resulting in high expectations for computational modelling tools to help fill this gap. However, as many empirical methods have been trained on experimental structural data, which is biased towards soluble globular proteins, their accuracy for transmembrane proteins is often limited. Results: We developed a local model quality estimation method for membrane proteins (‘QMEANBrane’) by combining statistical potentials trained on membrane protein structures with a per-residue weighting scheme. The increasing number of available experimental membrane protein structures allowed us to train membrane-specific statistical potentials that approach statistical saturation. We show that reliable local quality estimation of membrane protein models is possible, thereby extending local quality estimation to these biologically relevant molecules. Availability and implementation: Source code and datasets are available on request.
Faculties and Departments:05 Faculty of Science > Departement Biozentrum > Computational & Systems Biology > Bioinformatics (Schwede)
UniBasel Contributors:Studer, Gabriel and Biasini, Marco and Schwede, Torsten
Item Type:Article, refereed
Article Subtype:Research Article
Publisher:Oxford University Press
ISSN:1367-4803
Note:Publication type according to Uni Basel Research Database: Journal article
Language:English
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Deposited On:10 Oct 2014 09:19

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