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- Title
Residue propensities, discrimination and binding site prediction of adenine and guanine phosphates.
- Authors
Firoz, Ahmad; Malik, Adeel; Joplin, Karl H.; Ahmad, Zulfiqar; Jha, Vivekanand; Ahmad, Shandar
- Abstract
Background: Adenine and guanine phosphates are involved in a number of biological processes such as cell signaling, metabolism and enzymatic cofactor functions. Binding sites in proteins for these ligands are often detected by looking for a previously known motif by alignment based search. This is likely to miss those where a similar binding site has not been previously characterized and when the binding sites do not follow the rule described by predefined motif. Also, it is intriguing how proteins select between adenine and guanine derivative with high specificity. Results: Residue preferences for AMP, GMP, ADP, GDP, ATP and GTP have been investigated in details with additional comparison with cyclic variants cAMP and cGMP. We also attempt to predict residues interacting with these nucleotides using information derived from local sequence and evolutionary profiles. Results indicate that subtle differences exist between single residue preferences for specific nucleotides and taking neighbor environment and evolutionary context into account, successful models of their binding site prediction can be developed. Conclusion: In this work, we explore how single amino acid propensities for these nucleotides play a role in the affinity and specificity of this set of nucleotides. This is expected to be helpful in identifying novel binding sites for adenine and guanine phosphates, especially when a known binding motif is not detectable.
- Subjects
ADENINE; PHOSPHATES; NUCLEIC acids; CELL metabolism; LIGANDS (Biochemistry)
- Publication
BMC Biochemistry, 2011, Vol 12, Issue 1, p20
- ISSN
1471-2091
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1186/1471-2091-12-20