TitleFold combinations in multi-domain proteins.
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2019
AuthorsNaveenkumar N, Kumar G, Sowdhamini R, Srinivasan N, Vishwanath S
JournalBioinformation
Volume15
Issue5
Pagination342-350
Date Published2019
ISSN0973-2063
Abstract

Domain-domain interactions in multi-domain proteins play an important role in the combined function of individual domains for the overall biological activity of the protein. The functions of the tethered domains are often coupled and hence, limited numbers of domain architectures with defined folds are known in nature. Therefore, it is of interest to document the available fold-fold combinations and their preference in multi-domain proteins. Hence, we analyzed all multi-domain proteins with known structures in the protein databank and observed that only about 860 fold-fold combinations are present among them. Analyses of multi-domain proteins represented in sequence database result in recognition of 29,860 fold-fold combinations and it accounts for only 2.8% of the theoretically possible 1,036,080 (1439C2) fold-fold combinations. The observed preference for fold-fold combinations in multi-domain proteins is interesting in the context of multiple functions through structural adaptation by gene fusion.

DOI10.6026/97320630015342
Alternate JournalBioinformation
PubMed ID31249437
PubMed Central IDPMC6589474