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ArticlePloS one2014

Conservation weighting functions enable covariance analyses to detect functionally important amino acids.

Lucy J Colwell, Michael P Brenner, Andrew W Murray

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Article in PloS one, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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  2. Applications of sequence coevolution in membrane protein biochemistry.Biochimica et biophysica acta. Biomembranes · 2018
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Lucy J ColwellUniversity Chemical Laboratory, Cambridge University, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Michael P BrennerSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.
Andrew W MurrayFAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.

Funding

THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONAL MODULESP50GM068763 · NIGMS · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI STERN, BODO · 2003 to 2012
$28.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS GM068763NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM068763
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The explosive growth in the number of protein sequences gives rise to the possibility of using the natural variation in sequences of homologous proteins to find residues that control different protein phenotypes. Because in many cases different phenotypes are each controlled by a group of residues, the mutations that separate one version of a phenotype from another will be correlated. Here we incorporate biological knowledge about protein phenotypes and their variability in the sequence alignment of interest into algorithms that detect correlated mutations, improving their ability to detect the residues that control those phenotypes. We demonstrate the power of this approach using simulations and recent experimental data. Applying these principles to the protein families encoded by Dscam and Protocadherin allows us to make testable predictions about the residues that dictate the specificity of molecular interactions.

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Conserved SequenceAlgorithmsAmino AcidsAnalysis of VarianceComputational BiologyModels, MolecularPrincipal Component AnalysisProteinsProtein Structure, TertiaryAmino AcidsProteins

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PMID25379728
PMCPMC4224327

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