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RCSB Protein Data Bank: improved annotation, search and visualization of membrane protein structures archived in the PDB

Journal Article · · Bioinformatics
Abstract Motivation

Membrane proteins are encoded by approximately one fifth of human genes but account for more than half of all US FDA approved drug targets. Thanks to new technological advances, the number of membrane proteins archived in the PDB is growing rapidly. However, automatic identification of membrane proteins or inference of membrane location is not a trivial task.

Results

We present recent improvements to the RCSB Protein Data Bank web portal (RCSB PDB, rcsb.org) that provide a wealth of new membrane protein annotations integrated from four external resources: OPM, PDBTM, MemProtMD and mpstruc. We have substantially enhanced the presentation of data on membrane proteins. The number of membrane proteins with annotations available on rcsb.org was increased by ∼80%. Users can search for these annotations, explore corresponding tree hierarchies, display membrane segments at the 1D amino acid sequence level, and visualize the predicted location of the membrane layer in 3D.

Availability and implementation

Annotations, search, tree data and visualization are available at our rcsb.org web portal. Membrane visualization is supported by the open-source Mol* viewer (molstar.org and github.com/molstar/molstar).

Supplementary information

Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE
Grant/Contract Number:
SC0019749
OSTI ID:
1844289
Alternate ID(s):
OSTI ID: 1835496
OSTI ID: 1846037
Journal Information:
Bioinformatics, Journal Name: Bioinformatics Journal Issue: 5 Vol. 38; ISSN 1367-4803
Publisher:
Oxford University PressCopyright Statement
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English

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