MegaMotifBase -- a database of structural motifs in protein families and superfamilies
What you can do:
Find structural segments or motifs for protein structures.
Highlights:
- Motifs are recognized on the basis of both sequence conservation and preservation of important structural features such as amino acid preference, solvent accessibility, secondary structural content, hydrogen-bonding pattern and residue packing.
- This database provides 3D orientation patterns of the identified motifs in terms of inter-motif distances and torsion angles.
- Important applications of structural motifs are also provided in several crucial areas such as similar sequence and structure search, multiple sequence alignment and homology modeling.
- MegaMotifBase can be a useful resource to gain knowledge about structure and functional relationship of proteins.
Keywords:
- Amino Acid Motifs
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Conserved Sequence
- Protein Databases,
- Protein Sequence Analysis
- Proteins
- Structural Homology
- structural segment
- structural motif
- motif
- protein motif
- protein structure
Literature & Tutorials:
This record last updated: 05-02-2008