Author:
Cavanaugh David P.,Chittur Krishnan K.
Abstract
ABSTRACTMotivationSequence database search and matching algorithms are an important tool when trying to understand the structure (and so the function) of proteins. Proteins with similar structure and function often have very similar primary structure. There are however many cases where proteins with similar structure have very different primary structures. Substitution matrices (PAM, BLOSUM, Gonnett) can be used to identify proteins of similar structure, but they fail when the sequence similarity falls below about 25%.ResultsWe have described a new algorithm for examining the the primary structure of proteins against a database of known proteins with a new hydrophobicity index. In this paper, we examine the ability of TMATCH to identify proteins of similar structure using sequence matching with the hydrophobicity index. We compare results from TMATCH with those obtained using FASTA and PSI-BLAST. We show that by using similarity patterns spread across the entire length of two proteins we get a more robust indicator of remote relatedness than relying upon high similarity scoring pair regions.AvailabilityThe program TMATCH is available on requestContactchitturk@uah.edu
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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