ASD: a comprehensive database of allosteric proteins and modulators

Allostery is the most direct, rapid and efficient way of regulating protein function, ranging from the control of metabolic mechanisms to signaltransduction pathways. However, an enormous amount of unsystematic allostery information has deterred scientists who could benefit from this field. Here, we present the AlloSteric Database (ASD), the first online database that provides a central resource for the display, search and analysis of structure, function and related annotation for allosteric molecules. Currently, ASD contains 336 allosteric proteins from 101 species and 8095 modulators in three categories (activators, inhibitors and regulators). Proteins are annotated with a detailed description of allostery, biological process and related diseases, and modulators with binding affinity, physicochemical properties and therapeutic area. Integrating the information of allosteric proteins in ASD should allow for the identification of specific allosteric sites of a given subtype among prot...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: NAR
• Authors: Zhimin Huang, Liang Zhu, Yan Cao, Geng Wu, Xinyi Liu, Yingyi Chen, Qi Wang, Ting Shi, Yaxue Zhao, Yuefei Wang, Weihua Li, Yixue Li, Haifeng Chen, Guoqiang Chen, Jian Zhang
• Keywords: Binding Affinity, Medicinal Chemists, NAR 2011, Protein Function