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Exploring the sequence-structure protein landscape in the glycosyltransferase family

Nestlé Research Center, CH-1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland

Reprint requests to: Ziding Zhang, Nestlé Research Center, Vers-chez-les-Blanc, CH-1000 Lausanne 26, Switzerland; e-mail: Ziding.Zhang{at}rdls.nestle.com; fax: 41-21-785-9486.

To understand the molecular basis of glycosyltransferases’ (GTFs) catalytic mechanism, extensive structural information is required. Here, fold recognition methods were employed to assign 3D protein shapes (folds) to the currently known GTF sequences, available in public databases such as GenBank and Swissprot. First, GTF sequences were retrieved and classified into clusters, based on sequence similarity only. Intracluster sequence similarity was chosen sufficiently high to ensure that the same fold is found within a given cluster. Then, a representative sequence from each cluster was selected to compose a subset of GTF sequences. The members of this reduced set were processed by three different fold recognition methods: 3D-PSSM, FUGUE, and GeneFold. Finally, the results from different fold recognition methods were analyzed and compared to sequence-similarity search methods (i.e., BLAST and PSI-BLAST). It was established that the folds of about 70% of all currently known GTF sequences can be confidently assigned by fold recognition methods, a value which is higher than the fold identification rate based on sequence comparison alone (48% for BLAST and 64% for PSI-BLAST). The identified folds were submitted to 3D clustering, and we found that most of the GTF sequences adopt the typical GTF A or GTF B folds. Our results indicate a lack of evidence that new GTF folds (i.e., folds other than GTF A and B) exist. Based on cases where fold identification was not possible, we suggest several sequences as the most promising targets for a structural genomics initiative focused on the GTF protein family.

Keywords: Glycosyltransferase; fold recognition; sequence-similarity searching; protein structure prediction; structural genomics

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