Department of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi, New Delhi, India.
Genomics Proteomics Bioinformatics. 2010 Jun;8(2):122-6. doi: 10.1016/S1672-0229(10)60013-7.
Engineering zinc finger protein motifs for specific DNA targets in genomes is critical in the field of genome engineering. We have developed a computational method for predicting recognition helices for C2H2 zinc fingers that bind to specific target DNA sites. This prediction is based on artificial neural network using an exhaustive dataset of zinc finger proteins and their target DNA triplets. Users can select the option for two or three zinc fingers to be predicted either in a modular or synergistic fashion for the input DNA sequence. This method would be valuable for researchers interested in designing specific zinc finger transcription factors and zinc finger nucleases for several biological and biomedical applications. The web tool ZiF-Predict is available online at http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sundar/zifpredict/.
在基因组工程领域,针对特定的 DNA 目标设计锌指蛋白结构域是至关重要的。我们开发了一种计算方法,可以预测 C2H2 锌指蛋白与特定靶 DNA 位点结合的识别螺旋。该预测是基于人工神经网络,使用了锌指蛋白及其靶 DNA 三核苷酸的详尽数据集。用户可以选择以模块化或协同方式预测两个或三个锌指,用于输入 DNA 序列。对于有兴趣设计特定锌指转录因子和锌指核酸酶的研究人员来说,该方法具有重要价值,可应用于多个生物学和生物医学领域。在线 Web 工具 ZiF-Predict 可在 http://web.iitd.ac.in/~sundar/zifpredict/ 获得。