Discarding functional residues from the substitution table improves predictions of active sites within three-dimensional structures.

Substitutions of individual amino acids in proteins may be under very different evolutionary restraints depending on their structural and functional roles. The Environment Specific Substitution Table (ESST) describes the pattern of substitutions in terms of amino acid location within elements of sec...

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Main Authors: Sungsam Gong, Tom L Blundell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2008-10-01
Series:PLoS Computational Biology
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/18833291/pdf/?tool=EBI