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

Abstract

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.

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Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Univ. of California, La Jolla, CA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1844289
Alternate Identifier(s):
OSTI ID: 1835496; OSTI ID: 1846037
Grant/Contract Number:  
SC0019749; R01GM133198
Resource Type:
Published Article
Journal Name:
Bioinformatics
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Name: Bioinformatics Journal Volume: 38 Journal Issue: 5; Journal ID: ISSN 1367-4803
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
Country of Publication:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Citation Formats

Bittrich, Sebastian, Rose, Yana, Segura, Joan, Lowe, Robert, Westbrook, John D., Duarte, Jose M., Burley, Stephen K., and Valencia, ed., Alfonso. RCSB Protein Data Bank: improved annotation, search and visualization of membrane protein structures archived in the PDB. United Kingdom: N. p., 2021. Web. doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btab813.
Bittrich, Sebastian, Rose, Yana, Segura, Joan, Lowe, Robert, Westbrook, John D., Duarte, Jose M., Burley, Stephen K., & Valencia, ed., Alfonso. RCSB Protein Data Bank: improved annotation, search and visualization of membrane protein structures archived in the PDB. United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab813
Bittrich, Sebastian, Rose, Yana, Segura, Joan, Lowe, Robert, Westbrook, John D., Duarte, Jose M., Burley, Stephen K., and Valencia, ed., Alfonso. Thu . "RCSB Protein Data Bank: improved annotation, search and visualization of membrane protein structures archived in the PDB". United Kingdom. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab813.
@article{osti_1844289,
title = {RCSB Protein Data Bank: improved annotation, search and visualization of membrane protein structures archived in the PDB},
author = {Bittrich, Sebastian and Rose, Yana and Segura, Joan and Lowe, Robert and Westbrook, John D. and Duarte, Jose M. and Burley, Stephen K. and Valencia, ed., Alfonso},
abstractNote = {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.},
doi = {10.1093/bioinformatics/btab813},
journal = {Bioinformatics},
number = 5,
volume = 38,
place = {United Kingdom},
year = {Thu Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2021},
month = {Thu Dec 02 00:00:00 EST 2021}
}

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