Title
UET: a database of evolutionarily-predicted functional determinants of protein sequences that cluster as functional sites in protein structures
Abstract
The structure and function of proteins underlie most aspects of biology and their mutational perturbations often cause disease. To identify the molecular determinants of function as well as targets for drugs, it is central to characterize the important residues and how they cluster to form functional sites. The Evolutionary Trace (ET) achieves this by ranking the functional and structural importance of the protein sequence positions. ET uses evolutionary distances to estimate functional distances and correlates genotype variations with those in the fitness phenotype. Thus, ET ranks are worse for sequence positions that vary among evolutionarily closer homologs but better for positions that vary mostly among distant homologs. This approach identifies functional determinants, predicts function, guides the mutational redesign of functional and allosteric specificity, and interprets the action of coding sequence variations in proteins, people and populations. Now, the UET database offers pre-computed ET analyses for the protein structure databank, and on-the-fly analysis of any protein sequence. A web interface retrieves ET rankings of sequence positions and maps results to a structure to identify functionally important regions. This UET database integrates several ways of viewing the results on the protein sequence or structure and can be found at http://mammoth.bcm.tmc.edu/uet/.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1093/nar/gkv1279
NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Field
DocType
Volume
Protein sequencing,Phenotype,Structure and function,Biology,Coding region,Open reading frame,Trees (plant),Genetics,Database,Peptide sequence,Protein structure
Journal
44
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
D1
0305-1048
3
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
11
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rhonald C. Lua1306.06
Stephen J. Wilson251.10
Daniel M. Konecki330.40
Angela D. Wilkins4294.16
Eric Venner5182.06
Daniel H. Morgan6171.66
Olivier Lichtarge718218.68