MeMotif: a database of linear motifs in alpha-helical transmembrane proteins

Item Type Journal Article
Author Annalisa Marsico
Author Kerstin Scheubert
Author Anne Tuukkanen
Author Andreas Henschel
Author Christof Winter
Author Rainer Winnenburg
Author Michael Schroeder
URL http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19910368
Volume 38
Issue Database issue
Pages D181-189
Publication Nucleic Acids Research
ISSN 1362-4962
Date Jan 2010
Extra PMID: 19910368
Journal Abbr Nucleic Acids Res
DOI 10.1093/nar/gkp1042
Accessed 2009-12-30 14:29:28
Library Catalog NCBI PubMed
Abstract Membrane proteins are important for many processes in the cell and used as main drug targets. The increasing number of high-resolution structures available makes for the first time a characterization of local structural and functional motifs in alpha-helical transmembrane proteins possible. MeMotif (http://projects.biotec.tu-dresden.de/memotif) is a database and wiki which collects more than 2000 known and novel computationally predicted linear motifs in alpha-helical transmembrane proteins. Motifs are fully described in terms of several structural and functional features and editable. Motifs contained in MeMotif can be used in different biological applications, from the identification of biochemically important functional residues which are candidates for mutagenesis experiments to the improvement of tools for transmembrane protein modeling.
Title MeMotif: a database of linear motifs in alpha-helical transmembrane proteins
Short Title MeMotif
Date Added 2009-12-30 09:29
Date Modified 2009-12-30 09:29