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ArticleScientific reports2017

Network Analysis Reveals the Recognition Mechanism for Dimer Formation of Bulb-type Lectins.

Yunjie Zhao, Yiren Jian, Zhichao Liu, Hang Liu, Qin Liu, Chanyou Chen, Zhangyong Li, Lu Wang, H Howie Huang, Chen Zeng

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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10 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Yunjie ZhaoInstitute of Biophysics and Department of Physics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, 430079, China.
Yiren JianDepartment of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
Zhichao LiuDepartment of Physics, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
Hang LiuDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
Qin LiuSchool of Life Sciences, Jianghan University, Wuhan, 430056, China.
Chanyou ChenSchool of Life Sciences, Jianghan University, Wuhan, 430056, China.
Zhangyong LiResearch Center of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.
Lu WangResearch Center of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China.
H Howie HuangDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA.
Chen ZengResearch Center of Biomedical Engineering, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, China. chenz@gwu.edu.
George Washington University · USChongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications · CNJianghan University · CNCentral China Normal University · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The bulb-type lectins are proteins consist of three sequential beta-sheet subdomains that bind to specific carbohydrates to perform certain biological functions. The active states of most bulb-type lectins are dimeric and it is thus important to elucidate the short- and long-range recognition mechanism for this dimer formation. To do so, we perform comparative sequence analysis for the single- and double-domain bulb-type lectins abundant in plant genomes. In contrast to the dimer complex of two single-domain lectins formed via protein-protein interactions, the double-domain lectin fuses two single-domain proteins into one protein with a short linker and requires only short-range interactions because its two single domains are always in close proximity. Sequence analysis demonstrates that the highly variable but coevolving polar residues at the interface of dimeric bulb-type lectins are largely absent in the double-domain bulb-type lectins. Moreover, network analysis on bulb-type lectin proteins show that these same polar residues have high closeness scores and thus serve as hubs with strong connections to all other residues. Taken together, we propose a potential mechanism for this lectin complex formation where coevolving polar residues of high closeness are responsible for long-range recognition.

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Models, MolecularProtein ConformationProtein MultimerizationAlgorithmsBinding SitesMannosePlant LectinsProtein BindingStructure-Activity RelationshipMannosePlant Lectins

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