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Dear Tim,

You can calculate the accesible surface area (ASA) with the program
NACCESS. Then you will be able to compare surfaces quantitatively.

Cheers,

Maria




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> Dear Tea and Tim,
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> This may be a stupid idea, but what about this:
>
> 1. Superpose the proteins of interest
> 2. Compute their molecular surfaces with msms/Grasp or generate a mask
> with an appropriated probe
> 3. Take one of these surfaces and "invert it" over a cube defined from a
> clipping plane behind your region of interest (so the surface is put
> "inwards out" locally; for obvious reasons you cannot do this with all
> the surface)
> 4. Measure their complementarity with Michael Lawrence's "sc" program
> (in ccp4). You might need to translate stepwise if sc doesn't work on
> surfaces with clashes.
>
> Perhaps one of the tools to work with maps/mask could do the inversion?
>
> Or perhaps it's indeed a stupid idea, after all.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>
>
> Miguel
>
>
> En/na Tim Gruene ha escrit:
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>> You can use grasp or msms/Raster3D  to calculate and visualise protein
>> surfaces.
>> But how would you _compare_ surfaces quantitatively?
>>
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>> Tim Gruene
>> Institut fuer anorganische Chemie
>> Tammannstr. 4
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>> On Wed, 21 Jun 2006, Tea Pavkov wrote:
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>>> Dear ccp4bb,
>>>
>>> I would like to compare surfaces (not only ligand binding sites) of the
>>> proteins within the same family. Do you know if there is a program
>>> doing
>>> that or do you know people who are involved in developing something
>>> like
>>> that?
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance!
>>>
>>> Tea
>>>
>>>
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>>> Mag. Pavkov Tea
>>> Institute of Chemistry - Structural Biology
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>>> Heinrichstrasse 28, 8010 Graz, Austria
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>>> Phone: ++43 316 380 5414
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