Comparison of protein secondary structures based on backbone dihedral angles

J Theor Biol. 2008 Jan 21;250(2):382-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2007.10.013. Epub 2007 Oct 17.

Abstract

In this article, we propose a relatively similar measure to compare protein secondary structures. We first transform a protein secondary structure into a special sequence representation (angle sequence) based on a partition of the backbone phi, psi-space. Then, pairwise sequence distance is evaluated on the basis of a symbolic sequence complexity. To illustrate our approach, we construct the similarity tree of 24 proteins from PDB.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Humans
  • Models, Molecular
  • Protein Structure, Secondary*
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteins / classification*
  • Sequence Alignment

Substances

  • Proteins