2007
DOI: 10.1186/1752-153x-1-7
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PocketPicker: analysis of ligand binding-sites with shape descriptors

Abstract: Background: Identification and evaluation of surface binding-pockets and occluded cavities are initial steps in protein structure-based drug design. Characterizing the active site's shape as well as the distribution of surrounding residues plays an important role for a variety of applications such as automated ligand docking or in situ modeling. Comparing the shape similarity of binding site geometries of related proteins provides further insights into the mechanisms of ligand binding.

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“…For structural comparison of the active sites, cavities located next to the catalytic serine residues were extracted using PocketPicker (12) and converted into PoLiMorph graph representation (13). Based on these graphs (pocket frameworks), a comparison of shapes and of the pharmacophoric feature distributions within (please see supplemental Experimental Procedures for edditional information) the binding sites of HtrA species was calculated.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…For structural comparison of the active sites, cavities located next to the catalytic serine residues were extracted using PocketPicker (12) and converted into PoLiMorph graph representation (13). Based on these graphs (pocket frameworks), a comparison of shapes and of the pharmacophoric feature distributions within (please see supplemental Experimental Procedures for edditional information) the binding sites of HtrA species was calculated.…”
Section: Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…There are several groups of computational tools available for this task [29]. The first group involves setting up a three-dimensional grid of voxels and then scanning them to determine whether they are occupied by the protein atoms (represented by their, possibly scaled, van der Waals spheres) or not [30][31][32][33][34][35][36]. With these algorithms, it is necessary to start the counting inside the cavity or to introduce ways of closing it.…”
Section: Shape Characterizationmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Most of these methods use geometric or physical features of the binding sites themselves to identify them [1]- [3]. On the other hand, as mentioned above, we focus not only on the structural similarity among proteins in the same group but on the structural dissimilarity between the different groups [4].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%