PON-SC - program for identifying steric clashes caused by amino acid substitutions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Amino acid substitutions due to DNA nucleotide replacements are frequently disease-causing because of affecting functionally important sites. If the substituting amino acid does not fit into the protein, it causes structural alterations that are often harmful. Clashes of amino acids cause local or global structural changes. Testing structural compatibility of variations has been difficult due to the lack of a dedicated method that could handle vast amounts of variation data produced by next generation sequencing technologies.

Results

We developed a method, PON-SC, for detecting protein structural clashes due to amino acid substitutions. The method utilizes side chain rotamer library and tests whether any of the common rotamers can be fitted into the protein struct

SUBMITTER: Calyseva J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5707825 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature