3DLigandSite: Structure-based prediction of protein-ligand binding sites
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Journal Article
Abstract
3DLigandSite is a web tool for the prediction of ligand-binding sites in proteins. Here, we report a significant update since the first release of 3DLigandSite in 2010. The overall methodology remains the same, with candidate binding sites in proteins inferred using known binding sites in related protein structures as templates. However, the initial structural modelling step now uses the newly available structures from the AlphaFold database or alternatively Phyre2 when AlphaFold structures are not available. Further, a sequence-based search using HHSearch has been introduced to identify template structures with bound ligands that are used to infer the ligand-binding residues in the query protein. Finally, we introduced a machine learning element as the final prediction step, which improves the accuracy of predictions and provides a confidence score for each residue predicted to be part of a binding site. Validation of 3DLigandSite on a set of 6416 binding sites obtained 92% recall at 75% precision for non-metal binding sites and 52% recall at 75% precision for metal binding sites. 3DLigandSite is available at https://www.wass-michaelislab.org/3dligandsite. Users submit either a protein sequence or structure. Results are displayed in multiple formats including an interactive Mol* molecular visualization of the protein and the predicted binding sites.
Date Issued
2022-04-12
Date Acceptance
2022-03-29
Citation
Nucleic Acids Research, 2022, 50 (W1), pp.W13-W1=20
ISSN
0305-1048
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Start Page
W13
End Page
W1=20
Journal / Book Title
Nucleic Acids Research
Volume
50
Issue
W1
Copyright Statement
© The Author(s) 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Nucleic Acids Research.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust
Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC)
Identifier
https://academic.oup.com/nar/advance-article/doi/10.1093/nar/gkac250/6567476
Grant Number
WT/104955/Z/14/Z
218242/Z/19/Z
BB/J019240/1
Subjects
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
RESIDUE PREDICTIONS
DATABASE
Developmental Biology
05 Environmental Sciences
06 Biological Sciences
08 Information and Computing Sciences
Publication Status
Published
Date Publish Online
2022-04-03