Title
SitEx: a computer system for analysis of projections of protein functional sites on eukaryotic genes.
Abstract
Search of interrelationships between the structural-functional protein organization and exon structure of encoding gene provides insights into issues concerned with the function, origin and evolution of genes and proteins. The functions of proteins and their domains are defined mostly by functional sites. The relation of the exon-intron structure of the gene to the protein functional sites has been little studied. Development of resources containing data on projections of protein functional sites on eukaryotic genes is needed. We have developed SitEx, a database that contains information on functional site amino acid positions in the exon structure of encoding gene. SitEx is integrated with the BLAST and 3DExonScan programs. BLAST is used for searching sequence similarity between the query protein and polypeptides encoded by single exons stored in SitEx. The 3DExonScan program is used for searching for structural similarity of the given protein with these polypeptides using superimpositions. The developed computer system allows users to analyze the coding features of functional sites by taking into account the exon structure of the gene, to detect the exons involved in shuffling in protein evolution, also to design protein-engineering experiments. SitEx is accessible at http://www-bionet.sscc.ru/sitex/. Currently, it contains information about 9994 functional sites presented in 2021 proteins described in proteomes of 17 organisms.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1093/nar/gkr1187
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Keywords
Field
DocType
proteins,genes,exons
Gene,Biology,Protein engineering,Amino acid,Exon,Proteome,Structural similarity,Intron,Genetics,Basic Local Alignment Search Tool,Molecular biology
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
40
D1
0305-1048
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.37
17
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Irina Medvedeva121.08
Pavel Demenkov2192.34
Nikolay A. Kolchanov3470105.75
Vladimir A. Ivanisenko4568.57