iSPOT: A web tool to infer the interaction specificity of families of protein modules

Nucleic Acids Res. 2003 Jul 1;31(13):3709-11. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkg592.

Abstract

iSPOT (http://cbm.bio.uniroma2.it/ispot) is a web tool developed to infer the recognition specificity of protein module families; it is based on the SPOT procedure that utilizes information from position-specific contacts, derived from the available domain/ligand complexes of known structure, and experimental interaction data to build a database of residue-residue contact frequencies. iSPOT is available to infer the interaction specificity of PDZ, SH3 and WW domains. For each family of protein domains, iSPOT evaluates the probability of interaction between a query domain of the specified families and an input protein/peptide sequence and makes it possible to search for potential binding partners of a given domain within the SWISS-PROT database. The experimentally derived interaction data utilized to build the PDZ, SH3 and WW databases of residue-residue contact frequencies are also accessible. Here we describe the application to the WW family of protein modules.

Publication types

  • Evaluation Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Binding Sites
  • Databases, Protein
  • Internet
  • Ligands
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary*
  • Proteins / chemistry
  • Proteins / metabolism
  • Sequence Analysis, Protein / methods*
  • Software*
  • src Homology Domains

Substances

  • Ligands
  • Proteins