Determinants of quaternary association in legume lectins

Brinda, KV and Mitra, Nivedita and Surolia, Avadhesha and Vishveshwara, Saraswathi (2004) Determinants of quaternary association in legume lectins. In: Protein Science, 13 (7). pp. 1735-1749.

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Abstract

It is well known that the sequence of amino acids in proteins code for its tertiary structure. It is also known that there exists a relationship between sequence and the quaternary structure of proteins. The question addressed here is whether the nature of quaternary association can be predicted from the sequence, similar to the three-dimensional structure prediction from the sequence. The class of proteins called legume lectins is an interesting model system to investigate this problem, because they have very high sequence and tertiary structure homology, with diverse forms of quaternary association. Hence, we have used legume lectins as a probe in this paper to (1) gain novel insights about the relationship between sequence and quaternary structure; (2) identify the sequence motifs that are characteristic of a given type of quaternary association;and (3) predict the quaternary association from the sequence motif.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Protein Science
Publisher:	Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
Additional Information:	The copyright belongs to Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press.
Keywords:	Computational protein structure analysis;Quaternary association;Oligomerization;Legume lectins;Graph-spectral method;Interface amino acid clusters;Conserved amino acid clusters
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Molecular Biophysics Unit
Date Deposited:	25 Aug 2008
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 04:25
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/6447

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