Analysis of X-ray structures of matrix metalloproteinases via chaotic map clustering.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) are well-known biological targets implicated in tumour progression, homeostatic regulation, innate immunity, impaired delivery of pro-apoptotic ligands, and the release and cleavage of cell-surface receptors. With this in mind, the perception of the intimate relationships among diverse MMPs could be a solid basis for accelerated learning in designing new selective MMP inhibitors. In this regard, decrypting the latent molecular reasons in order to elucidate similarity among MMPs is a key challenge.

Results

We describe a pairwise variant of the non-parametric chaotic map clustering (CMC) algorithm and its application to 104 X-ray MMP structures. In this analysis electrostatic potentials are computed and used as input for the CMC algo

SUBMITTER: Giangreco I 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3098083 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature