The origin, evolution and structure of the protein world

G Caetano-Anollés, M Wang… - Biochemical …, 2009 - portlandpress.com
Contemporary protein architectures can be regarded as molecular fossils, historical imprints
that mark important milestones in the history of life. Whereas sequences change at a …

When less is more: sketching with minimizers in genomics

M Ndiaye, S Prieto-Baños, LM Fitzgerald… - Genome Biology, 2024 - Springer
The exponential increase in sequencing data calls for conceptual and computational
advances to extract useful biological insights. One such advance, minimizers, allows for …

[图书][B] Introduction to proteins: structure, function, and motion

A Kessel, N Ben-Tal - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Introduction to Proteins provides a comprehensive and state-of-the-art introduction to the
structure, function, and motion of proteins for students, faculty, and researchers at all levels …

Detecting evolutionary relationships across existing fold space, using sequence order-independent profile–profile alignments

L Xie, PE Bourne - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Here, a scalable, accurate, reliable, and robust protein functional site comparison algorithm
is presented. The key components of the algorithm consist of a reduced representation of the …

Bridging themes: short protein segments found in different architectures

R Kolodny, S Nepomnyachiy, DS Tawfik… - … biology and evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The vast majority of theoretically possible polypeptide chains do not fold, let alone confer
function. Hence, protein evolution from preexisting building blocks has clear potential …

Mathematical modeling and comparison of protein size distribution in different plant, animal, fungal and microbial species reveals a negative correlation between …

A Tiessen, P Pérez-Rodríguez… - BMC research …, 2012 - Springer
Background The sizes of proteins are relevant to their biochemical structure and for their
biological function. The statistical distribution of protein lengths across a diverse set of taxa …

The CATH classification revisited—architectures reviewed and new ways to characterize structural divergence in superfamilies

AL Cuff, I Sillitoe, T Lewis, OC Redfern… - Nucleic acids …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
The latest version of CATH (class, architecture, topology, homology)(version 3.2), released
in July 2008 (http://www. cathdb. info), contains 1 14 215 domains, 2178 Homologous …

GTalign: spatial index-driven protein structure alignment, superposition, and search

M Margelevičius - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
With protein databases growing rapidly due to advances in structural and computational
biology, the ability to accurately align and rapidly search protein structures has become …

Exploration of uncharted regions of the protein universe

L Jaroszewski, Z Li, SS Krishna, C Bakolitsa… - PLoS …, 2009 - journals.plos.org
The genome projects have unearthed an enormous diversity of genes of unknown function
that are still awaiting biological and biochemical characterization. These genes, as most …

Exploring the structure and function paradigm

OC Redfern, B Dessailly, CA Orengo - Current opinion in structural biology, 2008 - Elsevier
Advances in protein structure determination, led by the structural genomics initiatives have
increased the proportion of novel folds deposited in the Protein Data Bank. However, these …