J Struct Biol 1999 Apr-May;125(2-3):185-95
Department of Pharmacology, University of California, 9500 Gilman Drive, San Diego, California, 92093-0365, USA.
Three-dimensional image reconstructions of large-scale protein aggregates are routinely determined by electron microscopy (EM). We combine low-resolution EM data with high-resolution structures of proteins determined by x-ray crystallography. A set of visualization and analysis procedures, termed the Situs package, has been developed to provide an efficient and robust method for the localization of protein subunits in low-resolution data. Topology- representing neural networks are employed to vector-quantize and to correlate features within the structural data sets. Microtubules decorated with kinesin- related ncd motors are used as model aggregates to demonstrate the utility of this package of routines. The precision of the docking has allowed for the extraction of unique conformations of the macromolecules and is limited only by the reliability of the underlying structural data.
Copyright 1999 Academic Press.
PMID: 10222274, UI: 99240548
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