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Assessing the functional impact of protein binding site definition.

ABSTRACT: Many biomedical applications, such as classification of binding specificities or bioengineering, depend on the accurate definition of protein binding interfaces. Depending on the choice of method used, substantially different sets of residues can be classified as belonging to the interface of a protein. A typical approach used to verify these definitions is to mutate residues and measure the impact of these changes on binding. Besides the lack of exhaustive data this approach generates, it also suffers from the fundamental problem that a mutation introduces an unknown amount of alteration into an interface, which potentially alters the binding characteristics of the interface. In this study we explore the impact of alternative binding site definitions on the ability of a protein to recognize its cognate ligand using a pharmacophore approach, which does not affect the interface. The study also provides guidance on the minimum expected accuracy of interface definition that is required to capture the biological function of a protein.

SUBMITTER: Nandigrami P

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9900911 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Assessing the functional impact of protein binding site definition.

Nandigrami Prithviraj P Fiser Andras A

bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 20230127

Many biomedical applications, such as classification of binding specificities or bioengineering, depend on the accurate definition of protein binding interfaces. Depending on the choice of method used, substantially different sets of residues can be classified as belonging to the interface of a protein. A typical approach used to verify these definitions is to mutate residues and measure the impact of these changes on binding. Besides the lack of exhaustive data this approach generates, it also ...[more]

PMID: 36747792

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