BMC Bioinformatics

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Discovering structural motifs using a structural alphabet: Application to magnesium-binding sites

Minko Dudev1 and Carmay Lim1,2*

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1 Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei 115, Taiwan

2 Department of Chemistry, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu 300, Taiwan

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BMC Bioinformatics 2007, 8:106 doi:10.1186/1471-2105-8-106

Published: 28 March 2007

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Additional file 1:

The Mg2+-dataset containing 77 metal-binding sites in 70 nonredundant Mg2+-proteins. A table listing the PDB entries, protein description, native metal-cofactors (if known), EC code, metal-bound amino acid residues, and first-shell structural representation of the 70 nonredundant Mg2+-proteins.

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Additional file 2:

1st-shell patterns common to two Mg2+-proteins. A table listing 1st-shell structural patterns that is common to only 2 Mg2+-binding sites.

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Additional file 3:

The Ca2+-dataset containing 230 metal-binding sites in 177 nonredundant Ca2+-proteins. A table listing the PDB entries, protein description, native metal-cofactors (if known), EC code, metal-bound amino acid residues, and first-shell structural representation of the 177 nonredundant Ca2+-proteins.

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