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ArticleNucleic acids research2021

CATH: increased structural coverage of functional space.

Ian Sillitoe, Nicola Bordin, Natalie Dawson, Vaishali P Waman, Paul Ashford, Harry M Scholes, Camilla S M Pang, Laurel Woodridge, Clemens Rauer, Neeladri Sen and 8 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 283 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

283 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

18 authors.

Ian SillitoeInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Nicola BordinInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Natalie DawsonInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Vaishali P WamanInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Paul AshfordInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Harry M ScholesInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Camilla S M PangInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Laurel WoodridgeInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Clemens RauerInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Neeladri SenInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Mahnaz AbbasianInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Sean Le CornuInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Su Datt LamDepartment of Applied Physics, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Bangi, Selangor 43600, Malaysia.
Karel BerkaRegional Centre of Advanced Technologies and Materials, Department of Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Palacký University Olomouc, Olomouc 771 46, Czech Republic.
Ivana Hutařová VarekovaNational Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 602 00, Czech Republic.
Radka SvobodovaCentral European Institute of Technology, Masaryk University, Brno 625 00, Czech Republic| National Centre for Biomolecular Research, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Brno 602 00, Czech Republic.
Jon LeesDepartment of Biological and Medical Sciences, Faculty of Health and Life Sciences, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX3 0BP, UK.
Christine A OrengoInstitute of Structural and Molecular Biology, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Funding

Wellcome TrustWellcome Trust 104960/Z/14/ZWellcome Trust 203780/Z/16/A
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

CATH (https://www.cathdb.info) identifies domains in protein structures from wwPDB and classifies these into evolutionary superfamilies, thereby providing structural and functional annotations. There are two levels: CATH-B, a daily snapshot of the latest domain structures and superfamily assignments, and CATH+, with additional derived data, such as predicted sequence domains, and functionally coherent sequence subsets (Functional Families or FunFams). The latest CATH+ release, version 4.3, significantly increases coverage of structural and sequence data, with an addition of 65,351 fully-classified domains structures (+15%), providing 500 238 structural domains, and 151 million predicted sequence domains (+59%) assigned to 5481 superfamilies. The FunFam generation pipeline has been re-engineered to cope with the increased influx of data. Three times more sequences are captured in FunFams, with a concomitant increase in functional purity, information content and structural coverage. FunFam expansion increases the structural annotations provided for experimental GO terms (+59%). We also present CATH-FunVar web-pages displaying variations in protein sequences and their proximity to known or predicted functional sites. We present two case studies (1) putative cancer drivers and (2) SARS-CoV-2 proteins. Finally, we have improved links to and from CATH including SCOP, InterPro, Aquaria and 2DProt.

Indexed as

Protein DomainsAmino Acid SequenceComputational BiologyCOVID-19Databases, ProteinEpidemicsHumansInternetMolecular Sequence AnnotationProteinsSARS-CoV-2Sequence Analysis, ProteinSequence Homology, Amino AcidViral ProteinsProteinsViral Proteins

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PMID33237325
PMCPMC7778904

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