BSDB: the Biomolecule Stretching Database

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2010 Oct 9

PMID 20929872

Citations 15

Authors

Mateusz Sikora

Joanna I Sulkowska

Bartlomiej S Witkowski

Marek Cieplak

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Abstract

We describe the Biomolecule Stretching Data Base that has been recently set up at http://www.ifpan.edu.pl/BSDB/. It provides information about mechanostability of proteins. Its core is based on simulations of stretching of 17 134 proteins within a structure-based model. The primary information is about the heights of the maximal force peaks, the force-displacement patterns, and the sequencing of the contact-rupturing events. We also summarize the possible types of the mechanical clamps, i.e. the motifs which are responsible for a protein's resistance to stretching.

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