SDPpred: a tool for prediction of amino acid residues that determine differences in functional specificity of homologous proteins

Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jul 1;32(Web Server issue):W424-8. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkh391.

Abstract

SDPpred (Specificity Determining Position prediction) is a tool for prediction of residues in protein sequences that determine the proteins' functional specificity. It is designed for analysis of protein families whose members have biochemically similar but not identical interaction partners (e.g. different substrates for a family of transporters). SDPpred predicts residues that could be responsible for the proteins' choice of their correct interaction partners. The input of SDPpred is a multiple alignment of a protein family divided into a number of specificity groups, within which the interaction partner is believed to be the same. SDPpred does not require information about the secondary or three-dimensional structure of proteins. It produces a set of the alignment positions (specificity determining positions) that determine differences in functional specificity. SDPpred is available at http://math.genebee.msu.ru/~psn/.

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Amino Acids / analysis
  • Internet
  • Models, Molecular
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteins / classification
  • Proteins / physiology
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein*
  • Sequence Homology, Amino Acid*
  • Software*
  • User-Computer Interface

Substances

  • Amino Acids
  • Proteins