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A ligand-centric analysis of the diversity and evolution of protein-ligand relationships in E.coli
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posted on 2023-06-08, 04:57 authored by Irene Nobeli, Ruth V Spriggs, Richard A George, Janet M ThorntonAs enzymes evolve and diverge from common ancestor sequences, they often keep their overall reaction chemistry but specialize in the binding of different cognate ligands. This study borrows methods for the computational assessment of 2D similarity of small molecules from the field of chemoinformatics, to examine the extent of structure conservation of cognate ligands binding to similar proteins. Proteins from 87 structural superfamilies from Escherichia coli form the core dataset, which is extended using homologues with functional assignments from any organism. We find that correlation of the substrate similarity with protein similarity (measured by either sequence-based or structure-based scores) can only be clearly established for very similar proteins. At low sequence identities, the superfamily to which a protein belongs can give helpful clues to its function, and more importantly, the confidence attached to such clues is superfamily-dependent. Our data indicate that only a few superfamilies show great substrate diversity, and that most exhibit conservation of at least part of the structural scaffold of the substrate.
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Journal of Molecular BiologyISSN
0022-2836External DOI
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2Volume
347Page range
415-436Department affiliated with
- Biochemistry Publications
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