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ArticleComputational and mathematical methods in medicine2013

Space constrained homology modelling: the paradigm of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase of dengue (type II) virus.

Dimitrios Vlachakis, Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos, Sophia Kossida

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Article in Computational and mathematical methods in medicine, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.

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3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Dimitrios VlachakisBioinformatics & Medical Informatics Team, Biomedical Research Foundation, Academy of Athens, Soranou Efessiou 4, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Dimitrios Georgios Kontopoulos
Sophia Kossida
Academy of Athens · GR

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Abstract

Protein structure is more conserved than sequence in nature. In this direction we developed a novel methodology that significantly improves conventional homology modelling when sequence identity is low, by taking into consideration 3D structural features of the template, such as size and shape. Herein, our new homology modelling approach was applied to the homology modelling of the RNA-dependent RNA polymerase (RdRp) of dengue (type II) virus. The RdRp of dengue was chosen due to the low sequence similarity shared between the dengue virus polymerase and the available templates, while purposely avoiding to use the actual X-ray structure that is available for the dengue RdRp. The novel approach takes advantage of 3D space corresponding to protein shape and size by creating a 3D scaffold of the template structure. The dengue polymerase model built by the novel approach exhibited all features of RNA-dependent RNA polymerases and was almost identical to the X-ray structure of the dengue RdRp, as opposed to the model built by conventional homology modelling. Therefore, we propose that the space-aided homology modelling approach can be of a more general use to homology modelling of enzymes sharing low sequence similarity with the template structures.

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Computer SimulationModels, MolecularAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsCattleComputational BiologyCrystallography, X-RayDengue VirusDiarrhea Viruses, Bovine ViralHepacivirusHumansMolecular Sequence DataProtein ConformationRNA-Dependent RNA PolymeraseSequence AlignmentStatic ElectricityRNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase

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PMID23986788
PMCPMC3748430
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