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2016 ; 6
(ä): 36895
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Complex lasso: new entangled motifs in proteins
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Niemyska W
; Dabrowski-Tumanski P
; Kadlof M
; Haglund E
; Su?kowski P
; Sulkowska JI
Sci Rep
2016[Nov]; 6
(ä): 36895
PMID27874096
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We identify new entangled motifs in proteins that we call complex lassos. Lassos
arise in proteins with disulfide bridges (or in proteins with amide linkages),
when termini of a protein backbone pierce through an auxiliary surface of minimal
area, spanned on a covalent loop. We find that as much as 18% of all proteins
with disulfide bridges in a non-redundant subset of PDB form complex lassos, and
classify them into six distinct geometric classes, one of which resembles
supercoiling known from DNA. Based on biological classification of proteins we
find that lassos are much more common in viruses, plants and fungi than in other
kingdoms of life. We also discuss how changes in the oxidation/reduction
potential may affect the function of proteins with lassos. Lassos and associated
surfaces of minimal area provide new, interesting and possessing many potential
applications geometric characteristics not only of proteins, but also of other
biomolecules.