Journal
BMC BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-03770-5
Keywords
Protein structure evaluation; Protein structure quality assessment; Protein structure prediction; Protein-protein interaction; Protein-protein evaluation; Knowledge-based potential
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Funding
- Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation (MICINN) [BIO2017-85329-R]
- ERDF, UE [BIO2017-83591-R, RYC-2015-17519]
- MICINN [MDM-2014-0370]
- Spanish National Bioinformatics Institute (INB)
- PRB2-ISCIII
- ISCIII [PT13/0001/0023]
- ERDF of EU
- Agencia de Gestio d'Ajuts Universitaris I de Recerca de la Generalitat de Catalunya [SGR17-1020]
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The study introduces SPServer, a web server that utilizes Split-Statistical Potentials to analyze protein folds and interfaces. SPServer provides global scores and residue/residue pair profiles for users to identify problematic regions, disruptive amino acid pairs, and compare structural quality.
BackgroundStatistical potentials, also named knowledge-based potentials, are scoring functions derived from empirical data that can be used to evaluate the quality of protein folds and protein-protein interaction (PPI) structures. In previous works we decomposed the statistical potentials in different terms, named Split-Statistical Potentials, accounting for the type of amino acid pairs, their hydrophobicity, solvent accessibility and type of secondary structure. These potentials have been successfully used to identify near-native structures in protein structure prediction, rank protein docking poses, and predict PPI binding affinities.ResultsHere, we present the SPServer, a web server that applies the Split-Statistical Potentials to analyze protein folds and protein interfaces. SPServer provides global scores as well as residue/residue-pair profiles presented as score plots and maps. This level of detail allows users to: (1) identify potentially problematic regions on protein structures; (2) identify disrupting amino acid pairs in protein interfaces; and (3) compare and analyze the quality of tertiary and quaternary structural models. ConclusionsWhile there are many web servers that provide scoring functions to assess the quality of either protein folds or PPI structures, SPServer integrates both aspects in a unique easy-to-use web server. Moreover, the server permits to locally assess the quality of the structures and interfaces at a residue level and provides tools to compare the local assessment between structures.Server addresshttps://sbi.upf.edu/spserver/.
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