Protein Science, Vol 6, Issue 12 2628-2630, Copyright © 1997 by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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OLDERADO: On-line database of ensemble representatives and domains

L. A. KELLEY and M. J. SUTCLIFFE
Department of Chemistry, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, United Kingdom

In cases where the structure of a single protein is represented by an ensemble of conformations, there is often a need to determine the common features and to choose a ``representative'' conformation. This occurs, for example, with structures determined by NMR spectroscopy, analysis of the trajectory from a molecular dynamics simulation, or an ensemble of structures produced by comparative modeling. We reported previously automatic methods for (1) defining the atoms with low spatial variance across an ensemble (i.e., the ``core'' atoms) and the domains in which these atoms lie, and (2) clustering an ensemble into conformationally related subfamilies. To extend the utility of these methods, we have developed a freely available server on the World Wide Web at http://neon.chem.le.ac.uk/olderado/. This (1) contains an automatically generated database of representative structures, core atoms, and domains determined for 449 ensembles of NMR-derived protein structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) in May 1997, and (2) allows the user to upload a PDB-formatted file containing the coordinates of an ensemble of structures. The server returns in real time: (1) information on the residues constituting domains; (2) the structures that constitute each conformational subfamily; and (3) an interactive java-based three-dimensional viewer to visualise the domains and clusters. Such information is useful, for example, when selecting conformations to be used in comparative modeling and when choosing parts of structures to be used in molecular replacement. Here we describe the OLDERADO server.
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