PMID:1660134

Citation	Vriend, G and Sander, C (1991) Detection of common three-dimensional substructures in proteins. Proteins 11:52-8
Abstract	We present a fully automatic algorithm for three-dimensional alignment of protein structures and for the detection of common substructures and structural repeats. Given two proteins, the algorithm first identifies all pairs of structurally similar fragments and subsequently clusters into larger units pairs of fragments that are compatible in three dimensions. The detection of similar substructures is independent of insertion/deletion penalties and can be chosen to be independent of the topology of loop connections and to allow for reversal of chain direction. Using distance geometry filters and other approximations, the algorithm, implemented in the WHAT IF program, is so fast that structural comparison of a single protein with the entire database of known protein structures can be performed routinely on a workstation. The method reproduces known non-trivial superpositions such as plastocyanin on azurin. In addition, we report surprising structural similarity between ubiquitin and a (2Fe-2S) ferredoxin.
Links	PubMed Online version:10.1002/prot.340110107
Keywords	Algorithms; Azurin/chemistry; Ferredoxins/chemistry; Hemoglobins/chemistry; Models, Molecular; Plastocyanin/chemistry; Protein Conformation; Proteins/chemistry; Sequence Alignment; Software; Thiosulfate Sulfurtransferase/chemistry; Ubiquitins/chemistry
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