TALI: Local Alignment of Protein Structures Using Backbone Torsion Angles

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Torsion angle alignment (TALI) is a novel approach to local structural motif alignment, based on backbone torsion angles (ϕ, ψ) rather than the more traditional atomic distance matrices. Representation of a protein structure in the form of a sequence of torsion angles enables easy integration of sequence and structural information, and adopts mature techniques in sequence alignment to improve performance and alignment quality. We show that TALI is able to match local structural motifs as well as identify global structural similarity. TALI is also compared to other structure alignment methods such as DALI, CE, and SSM, as well as sequence alignment based on PSI-BLAST; TALI is shown to be equally successful as, or more successful than, these other methods when applied to challenging structural alignments. The inference of the evolutionary tree of class II aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase shows the potential for TALI in estimating protein structural evolution and in identifying structural divergence among homologous structures. Availability: .

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©Journal of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology 2008, World Scientific Publishing

MIAO, X., WADDELL, P., & VALAFAR, H. (2008). Tali: Local Alignment of Protein Structures Using Backbone Torsion Angles. Journal Of Bioinformatics And Computational Biology, 06(01), 163-181. doi: 10.1142/s0219720008003370

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