Identification of local conformational similarity in structurally variable regions of homologous proteins using protein blocks.

Structure comparison tools can be used to align related protein structures to identify structurally conserved and variable regions and to infer functional and evolutionary relationships. While the conserved regions often superimpose well, the variable regions appear non superimposable. Differences i...

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Main Authors: Garima Agarwal, Swapnil Mahajan, Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, Alexandre G de Brevern
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3060819?pdf=render