Predicting coiled coils by use of pairwise residue correlations

  1. B Berger,
  2. D B Wilson,
  3. E Wolf,
  4. T Tonchev,
  5. M Milla, and
  6. P S Kim
  1. Mathematics Department, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 02139, USA.

Abstract

A method is presented that predicts coiled-coil domains in protein sequences by using pairwise residue correlations obtained from a (two-stranded) coiled-coil database of 58,217 amino acid residues. A program called PAIRCOIL implements this method and is significantly better than existing methods at distinguishing coiled coils from alpha-helices that are not coiled coils. The database of pairwise residue correlations suggests structural features that stabilize or destabilize coiled coils.

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  1. PNAS August 29, 1995 vol. 92 no. 18 8259-8263
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