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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2017

CheckMyMetal: a macromolecular metal-binding validation tool.

Heping Zheng, David R Cooper, Przemyslaw J Porebski, Ivan G Shabalin, Katarzyna B Handing, Wladek Minor

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 204 papers.

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6 authors.

Heping ZhengMolecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
David R CooperMolecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Przemyslaw J PorebskiMolecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Ivan G ShabalinMolecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Katarzyna B HandingMolecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.
Wladek MinorMolecular Physiology and Biological Physics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA.

Funding

Integrated resource for reproducibility in macromolecular crystallographyU01HG008424 · NHGRI · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI MINOR, WLADEK · 2015 to 2017
$1.5M
Metal binding sites in macromolecular structuresR01GM117325 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA · PI MINOR, WLADEK · 2016 to 2019
$1.3M
NHGRI NIH HHS U01 HG008424NIAID NIH HHS HHSN272201200026CNIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM117325
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Metals are essential in many biological processes, and metal ions are modeled in roughly 40% of the macromolecular structures in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). However, a significant fraction of these structures contain poorly modeled metal-binding sites. CheckMyMetal (CMM) is an easy-to-use metal-binding site validation server for macromolecules that is freely available at http://csgid.org/csgid/metal_sites. The CMM server can detect incorrect metal assignments as well as geometrical and other irregularities in the metal-binding sites. Guidelines for metal-site modeling and validation in macromolecules are illustrated by several practical examples grouped by the type of metal. These examples show CMM users (and crystallographers in general) problems they may encounter during the modeling of a specific metal ion.

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Binding SitesCrystallography, X-RayDatabases, ProteinMagnesiumMetalsModels, MolecularProteinsSodiumSoftwareMagnesiumMetalsProteinsSodiumCheckMyMetalcoordination geometrymetal-binding environmentvalidation

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PMID28291757
PMCPMC5349434

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