Chamoli Tanishq, Khera Alisha, Sharma Akanksha, Gupta Anshul, Garg Sonam, Mamgain Kanishk, Bansal Aayushi, Verma Shriya, Gupta Ankit, Alajangi Hema K, Singh Gurpal, Barnwal Ravi P
Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Chandigarh College of Engineering and Technology, Chandigarh, India.
Department of Biophysics, Panjab University, Chandigarh 160014, India.
Heliyon. 2022 Dec 10;8(12):e12283. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e12283. eCollection 2022 Dec.
Proteins are essential building blocks in humans that have garnered huge attention from researchers worldwide due to their numerous therapeutic applications. To date, different computational tools have been developed to extract pre-existing information on these biological molecules, but most of these tools suffer from limitations such as non-user friendly interface, redundancy of data, etc. To overcome these limitations, a user-friendly interface, the Peptide Utility (PU) webserver (https://chain-searching.herokuapp.com/) has been developed for searching and analyzing homologous and identical protein/peptide sequences that can be searched from approximately 0.4 million sequences (structural and sequence information) in both online and offline modes. The PU web server can also be used to study different types of interactions in PDBSum, identifying the most dominating interface residues, the most prevalent interactions, and the interaction preferences of different residues. The webserver would also pave way for the design of novel therapeutic peptides and folds by identifying conserved residues in the three-dimensional structure space of proteins.
蛋白质是人体必需的组成部分,因其众多的治疗应用而受到全球研究人员的广泛关注。迄今为止,已经开发了不同的计算工具来提取这些生物分子的现有信息,但这些工具大多存在诸如用户界面不友好、数据冗余等局限性。为克服这些局限性,已开发出一个用户友好的界面——肽工具(PU)网络服务器(https://chain-searching.herokuapp.com/),用于搜索和分析同源及相同的蛋白质/肽序列,这些序列可在在线和离线模式下从约40万条序列(结构和序列信息)中进行搜索。PU网络服务器还可用于研究PDBSum中的不同类型相互作用,识别最主要的界面残基、最普遍的相互作用以及不同残基的相互作用偏好。该网络服务器还将通过识别蛋白质三维结构空间中的保守残基,为新型治疗性肽和折叠结构的设计铺平道路。