Database Systems
Docking Search in 3D Protein Databases
(BMBF joint project BIOWEPRO)
Team Leader
Prof. Dr. Hans-Peter Kriegel
Team
Kai Aldinger
Thomas Schmidt
Thomas Seidl
Project Partner
Gesellschaft für Biotechnologische Forschung mbH (GBF), Braunschweig,
Prof. Dr. Dietmar Schomburg, coordinator
University of Bielefeld, Applied Computer Science Group, Prof. Dr. Gerhard Sagerer
Max-Planck-Institute for Biophysical Chemistry, Göttingen, Dr. D. Mario Soumpasis
Funding
German Ministry for Education, Science, Research, and Technology (BMBF), Strategy concept Molecular Bioinformatics
Joint projekt Biomolecular Interactions of Proteins (BIOWEPRO)
Munich part Development of a Molecular Surface Representation for Database Systems
Grant no. 01 IB 307 B
Introduction
In the project BIOWEPRO, we develop new database techniques to effectively and efficiently support the 1:n-docking prediction for proteins. Our approach includes new representation and storage methods for molecular surfaces as well as new methods for similarity query processing for 3D surface segments with respect to shape similarity. The selection of segments from the database which have a similar (or complementary) 3D shape yields a set of potential docking candidates for the query protein.
Proteins play an important role in every living organism since they are the acting instances for all fundamental processes of life like in the digestive system, metabolism, and immunosystem. The function of proteins takes place as an interaction with other molecules which is called docking.
An important heuristic for the prediction of molecular interaction is the `key-and-lock'-principle. The docking sites of the partner molecules have a strong complementarity, especially concerning the geometry. Many docking sites may be determined solely by this complementarity geometry. Thus, the docking problem may be transformed to a search problem for complementary surface segments. While following our segmentation approach, we compute the molecular surface and extract potential docking segments for all the proteins in our database. For each of the segments, various shape representations are computed that are appropriate to support a complementarity search in the database.
Research Topics
Protein Database and Molecular Surfaces
Similarity of 3D Surface Segments
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