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CURRENT OPINION IN STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY
Volume 11, Issue 3, Pages 364-369Publisher
CURRENT BIOLOGY LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-440X(00)00216-5
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- NCI NIH HHS [N01-CO-56000] Funding Source: Medline
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Recent studies increasingly point to the importance of structural flexibility and plasticity in proteins, highlighting the evolutionary advantage. There are an increasing number of cases in which given, presumably specific, binding sites have been shown to bind a range of ligands with different compositions and shapes. These studies have also revealed that evolution tends to find convergent solutions for stable intermolecular associations, largely via conservation of polar residues as hot spots of binding energy. On the other hand, the ability to bind multiple ligands at a given site is largely derived from hinge-based motions. The consideration of these two factors in functional epitopes allows more realism and robustness in the description of protein binding surfaces and, as such, in applications to mutants, modeled structures and design. Efficient multiple structure comparison and hinge-bending structure comparison tools enable the construction of combinatorial binding epitope libraries.
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