Title
The Catalytic Site Atlas 2.0: cataloging catalytic sites and residues identified in enzymes.
Abstract
Understanding which are the catalytic residues in an enzyme and what function they perform is crucial to many biology studies, particularly those leading to new therapeutics and enzyme design. The original version of the Catalytic Site Atlas (CSA) (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/CSA) published in 2004, which catalogs the residues involved in enzyme catalysis in experimentally determined protein structures, had only 177 curated entries and employed a simplistic approach to expanding these annotations to homologous enzyme structures. Here we present a new version of the CSA (CSA 2.0), which greatly expands the number of both curated (968) and automatically annotated catalytic sites in enzyme structures, utilizing a new method for annotation transfer. The curated entries are used, along with the variation in residue type from the sequence comparison, to generate 3D templates of the catalytic sites, which in turn can be used to find catalytic sites in new structures. To ease the transfer of CSA annotations to other resources a new ontology has been developed: the Enzyme Mechanism Ontology, which has permitted the transfer of annotations to Mechanism, Annotation and Classification in Enzymes (MACiE) and UniProt Knowledge Base (UniProtKB) resources. The CSA database schema has been re-designed and both the CSA data and search capabilities are presented in a new modern web interface.
Year
DOI
Venue
2014
10.1093/nar/gkt1243
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
internet,enzymes
UniProt Knowledgebase,Enzyme,Annotation,Biology,UniProt,Enzyme catalysis,Database schema,Cataloging,Bioinformatics,Computational biology,Genetics,Protein structure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
42
D1
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
18
0.99
9
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nicholas Furnham116710.90
Gemma L Holliday220113.39
Tjaart A. P. de Beer3292.93
Julius O B Jacobsen4180.99
William R Pearson5261.66
Janet M. Thornton61638247.87