The role of long-range interactions in defining the secondary structure of proteins is overestimated

Andras Fiser, Zsuzsanna Dosztanyi, Istvan Simon

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Abstract

Motivation: Secondary structure predictions based on the properties of individual residues, and sometimes on local interactions, usually fail to exceed 65% efficiency. Therefore, non-local, long-range interactions seem to be a significant cause of this limitation. Results: In this paper, we apply approaches to localize highly interacting residues and clusters of residues involved in multiple non-local interactions, and test various secondary structure predictions on this separate subset to assess the effect of long-range interactions on the prediction efficiencies. It was found that only a marginal part of the failure of secondary structure predictions results from the presence of long-range interactions. Alternative possibilities are also discussed.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)297-301
Number of pages5
JournalBioinformatics
Volume13
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 1997
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Statistics and Probability
  • Biochemistry
  • Molecular Biology
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Computational Mathematics

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