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SUPEROXIDE DISMUTASE ANNOTATION TOOL


The prediction method is based on a series of residue and interaction fingerprints, derived from a set of aligned sod sequences and structures. Several types of fingerprints can be distinguished:

(1) Residues and interacting residue pairs that are conserved across the whole set of aligned sod sequences. A necessary condition for a target sequence to be predicted as sod is that it contains all these fingerprints.
(2) Residues and interacting residue pairs that are conserved in at least 80% of the aligned sod sequences. A necessary condition for a target sequence to be predicted as sod is that it contains a sufficient number of these fingerprints.
(3) Residues and interacting residue pairs that occur in at least 80% of the aligned sod sequences of a given type, and in less than 20% of the others. The sod types considered are Fe-specific, Mn-specific, dimer, tetramer, Fe dimer, Fe tetramer, Mn dimer, Mn tetramer, all but Fe dimer, all but Fe tetramer, all but Mn dimer, all but Mn tetramer. A target sequence is predicted to be of the sod type with the most matching fingerprints.

The complete list of fingerprints used by SODa is given here.

All further details can be found in the articles:

  • Mn/Fe superoxide dismutase interaction fingerprints and prediction of oligomerization and metal cofactor from sequence.
    Wintjens R, Gilis D, Rooman M.
    Proteins, 70:1564-77 (2008). Medline
  • SODa: an Mn/Fe SuperOxide Dismutase annotation tool.
    Kwasigroch JM, Wintjens R, Gilis D, Rooman M.
    BMC Bioinformatics. 2008 Jun 2;9:257. Medline
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