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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2023

Using evolutionary data to make sense of macromolecules with a "face-lifted" ConSurf.

Barak Yariv, Elon Yariv, Amit Kessel, Gal Masrati, Adi Ben Chorin, Eric Martz, Itay Mayrose, Tal Pupko, Nir Ben-Tal

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Article in Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 276 papers.

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276citing papers in PubMed
61.3field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

276 citing papers in PubMed, 399 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Barak YarivGeorge S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Elon YarivGeorge S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Amit KesselGeorge S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-0227-0226
Gal MasratiGeorge S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0003-1322-5762
Adi Ben ChorinGeorge S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
Eric MartzDepartment of Microbiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA.
Itay MayroseGeorge S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, School of Plant Sciences and Food Security, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-8460-1502
Tal PupkoGeorge S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, The Shmunis School of Biomedicine and Cancer Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-9463-2575
Nir Ben-TalGeorge S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.ORCID 0000-0001-6901-832X
Tel Aviv University · ILUniversity of Massachusetts Amherst · US

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The ConSurf web-sever for the analysis of proteins, RNA, and DNA provides a quick and accurate estimate of the per-site evolutionary rate among homologues. The analysis reveals functionally important regions, such as catalytic and ligand-binding sites, which often evolve slowly. Since the last report in 2016, ConSurf has been improved in multiple ways. It now has a user-friendly interface that makes it easier to perform the analysis and to visualize the results. Evolutionary rates are calculated based on a set of homologous sequences, collected using hidden Markov model-based search tools, recently embedded in the pipeline. Using these, and following the removal of redundancy, ConSurf assembles a representative set of effective homologues for protein and nucleic acid queries to enable informative analysis of the evolutionary patterns. The analysis is particularly insightful when the evolutionary rates are mapped on the macromolecule structure. In this respect, the availability of AlphaFold model structures of essentially all UniProt proteins makes ConSurf particularly relevant to the research community. The UniProt ID of a query protein with an available AlphaFold model can now be used to start a calculation. Another important improvement is the Python re-implementation of the entire computational pipeline, making it easier to maintain. This Python pipeline is now available for download as a standalone version. We demonstrate some of ConSurf's key capabilities by the analysis of caveolin-1, the main protein of membrane invaginations called caveolae.

Indexed as

Biological EvolutionEvolution, MolecularConserved SequenceProtein ConformationProteinsSoftwareProteinsConSurfevolutionary conservationfunctional regionsfunction prediction

Identifiers

PMID36718848
PMCPMC9942591
OpenAlexW4318614730

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