PREDICTING COILED COILS FROM PROTEIN SEQUENCES

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作者
LUPAS, A [1 ]
VANDYKE, M [1 ]
STOCK, J [1 ]
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[1] PRINCETON UNIV,DEPT MOLEC BIOL,PRINCETON,NJ 08544
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10.1126/science.252.5009.1162
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
The probability that a residue in a protein is part of a coiled-coil structure was assessed by comparison of its flanking sequences with sequences of known coiled-coil proteins. This method was used to delineate coiled-coil domains in otherwise globular proteins, such as the leucine zipper domains in transcriptional regulators, and to predict regions of discontinuity within coiled-coil structures, such as the hinge region in myosin. More than 200 proteins that probably have coiled-coil domains were identified in GenBank, including alpha- and beta-tubulins, flagellins, G protein beta-subunits, some bacterial transfer RNA synthetases, and members of the heat shock protein (Hsp70) family.
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