Monday 27 February 2012

shape complementarity between protein and DNA surface


From: Deepak Thankappan Nair
Date: 7 February 2012 03:19


Dear All
For calculation of the shape complementarity index using the Sc
program between a protein and DNA surface, does anybody have a
modified radii.lib file that includes information about DNA atoms?
Also, is there any reference that has information regarding the atomic
radii of DNA atoms?
thanks
Deepak

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From: Tim Gruene

Dear Deepak,

the only atom type present in DNA and not in Proteins would be the
Phosphorus. You can probably add this to sc_radii.lib yourself with the line
***    P*      1.80

the radius stems from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phosphorus and the
link to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Van_der_Waals_radius provides you
with the reference.

The results will hardly differ if you modify this value within 100%, I
guess.

Cheers,
Tim
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Dr Tim Gruene


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