Evaluating protein structure descriptors and tuning Gauss integral based descriptors

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Abstract

The general development in the natural sciences from relative comparison to absolute description forces the current relative protein structure comparison, based on similarity measures, to be supplemented, or even replaced, by absolute description of each individual protein structure. This paper addresses the question of what should be required from a good set of protein structure descriptors. As an example a Gauss integral based family of protein structure descriptors, that has been shown to successfully classify the geometry of CATH2.4 connected protein domains, is examined. The CATH2.4 domains are here observed to break a symmetry under reversal of the direction of traversal of the protein backbone that general folded tubes possess. It is thus a challenge for any large scale protein or polymer model to explain this broken symmetry.
Original languageEnglish
JournalJournal of Physics Condensed Matter
Volume17
Pages (from-to)1523-1538
ISSN0953-8984
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2005
EventWorkshop on Structure and Function of Biomolecules -
Duration: 5 Nov 20045 Nov 2004

Workshop

WorkshopWorkshop on Structure and Function of Biomolecules
Period05/11/200405/11/2004

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