Bhat, Chanda R and Bhattacharyya, Moitrayee and Vishveshwara, Saraswathi (2013) NON-GLYCINE RESIDUES IN THE DISALLOWED REGIONS OF THE RAMACHANDRAN MAP AND THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD PREFERENCES. In: Conference on Biomolecular Forms and Functions - A Celebration of 50 Years of the Ramachandran Map, JAN, 2013, Indian Inst Sci, Bangalore, INDIA, pp. 95-106.
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The allowed and the ``disallowed'' regions in the celebrated Ramachandran map (phi-psi] map) was elegantly deduced by Ramachandran, Ramakrishnan and Sasisekharan even before the protein crystal structures became available. This powerful map was derived based on rigid geometry of the peptide group and later several investigations on protein crystal structures reported the occurrence of a small fraction of the phi-psi] torsion angles in the disallowed region. The question is what factors make these residues adopt disallowed conformations? Is it driven by the necessity to maintain the overall topology or is it associated with function or is it just that the disallowed conformations are extreme limits of the allowed conformations? Today, with the availability of a large number of high resolution crystal structures, we have revisited this problem. Apart from validating some of the earlier findings such as residue propensities, preferred location in the secondary structure, we have explored their spatial neighborhood preferences using the protein structure network PSN] approach developed in our lab. Finally, the structural and functional implications of the disallowed conformations are examined.
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| Publisher: | WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD |
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| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jul 2014 09:03 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jul 2014 09:03 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/49485 |
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