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PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 67, Issue 2, Pages 350-359Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.21353
Keywords
protein structure; flexibility; catalytic residues; elastic network; Brownian dynamics
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We have applied the calculation of mechanical properties to a dataset of almost 100 enzymes to determine the extent to which catalytic residues have distinct properties. Specifically, we have calculated force constants describing the ease of moving any given amino acid residue with respect to the other residues in the protein. The results show that catalytic residues are invariably associated with high force constants. Choosing an appropriate cutoff enables the detection of roughly 800% of catalytic residues with only 25% of false positives. It is shown that neither multidomain structures, nor the presence or absence of bound ligands hinder successful detections. It is however noted that active sites near the protein surface are more difficult to detect and that non-catalytic, but structurally key residues may also exhibit high force constants.
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