The CATH domain structure database.
The CATH domain structure database.
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CATH 域结构数据库。
DOI:
10.1002/0471721204.ch13
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发表时间:
2005
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通讯作者:
Janet M. Thornton
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作者:
C. Orengo;Frances M. G. Pearl;Janet M. Thornton
During evolution protein sequences change due to mutations in their residues and insertions and deletions of residues. These changes give rise to families of related proteins and the earliest protein family resources, based solely on sequence data, were first established in the 1970s by the pioneering work of Dayhoff. Since then many sequence databases have been established and relationships are often detected using alignment methods based on powerful dynamic programming algorithms adapted from the realm of computer science. Such methods handle the residue insertions and deletions occurring between distant evolutionary relatives very efficiently. The structural data has always been more sparse than the sequence data due to the technical challenges of structure determination. There is currently over two orders of magnitude discrepancy between the sequence and structure resources. Thus, while the Protein Data Bank (PDB) contains about 16,000 structural entries, the nucleotide sequence databank at the National Centre for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)(Gen-Bank) contains over 12 million entries.Therefore, although the first crystal structures were solved in the early 1970s, it was not until the mid-1990s that structural classifications began to emerge, primarily with Structural Classification of Proteins (SCOP)(Murzin et al., 1995; Lo Conte, 2000), DALI (Holm and Sander, 1996), and CATH (Orengo et al., 1997; Pearl et al., 2001) databases and data resources (see Table 13.2). Several other classifications have arisen since (see, for example, DDBASE (Sowdhamini et al., 1998), 3Dee (Dengler, Siddiqui, and Barton, 2001), DaliDD (Holm and Sander, 1998; Dietmann and Holm, 2001), reviewed in Holm and Sander, 1994b, and Orengo, 1994. These databases use a variety of different algorithms for comparing three-dimensional (3D) structures (see Chapter 16). They also differ in methods for measuring similarity between the