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Bioinformatics, doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btl115
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Received January 30, 2006
Revised March 3, 2006
Accepted March 22, 2006

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GBPM: GRID based pharmacophore model. Concept and application studies to protein-protein recognition

Francesco Ortuso 1, Thierry Langer 2, and Stefano Alcaro 1 *

1 Dipartimento di Scienze Farmacobiologiche Università di Catanzaro "Magna Græcia", Complesso Ninì Barbieri I-88021, Roccelletta di Borgia (CZ), Italy
2 Institute of Pharmacy, Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Innrain 52a, University of Innsbruck, A-6020 Innsbruck, Austria

* To whom correspondence should be addressed.
Stefano Alcaro, E-mail: alcaro{at}unicz.it


  Abstract

Motivation: Automatic procedures to obtain pharmacophore models from experimentally determined macromolecular complexes can help in the drug discovery process, especially when protein-protein recognition plays an important biological role.

Results: The GBPM is a fully objective method for defining most relevant interaction areas in complexes deriving pharmacophore models from 3D molecular structure information. It is based on logical and clustering operations with three-dimensional maps computed by the GRID program (Goodford, 1985) on structurally known molecular complexes. In this manuscript we describe the concept and discuss application examples regarding protein-protein recognition. In particular two complexes selected in the Protein Data Bank have been tested to evaluate the GBPM capability to identify interaction areas. The results obtained show the capabilities of this new bioinformatic method.

Availability: The GBPM method has not been developed as a new computational code. It is based on the combination of existing scientific programs.

Supplementary information: no.

Associate Editor: Alfonso Valencia
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