Issue August 2002

category image Volume 20
No. 1 (p 1-140)
August 2002
ISSN 0739-1102

Entropy of Protein Sequences: An Integral Approach (p. 87-92)

Several classifications of protein spatial structures and their structural elements are known. This makes revealing of the relation between these structural elements and sequence fragments rather topical. The most important move in this direction would be the determination of positional sensitivity levels and ranges between the residues in protein sequences. In this work the Shannon-Weaver informational entropy was used as a disorder criterion for solving this problem. This entropy was computed as function of the distance between the amino acid residues in different sets of unhomological protein sequences. Similarity of this function for different sets of protein sequences was shown. Analysis of informational entropy allows detecting a long-range positional correlation (≥30) between the amino acid residues and oscillations with periods of 3.6 and 2.9. These oscillation periods correspond to periodicity of α- and 310-helices.

Alexei N. Nekrasov

Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry
Russian Academy of Sciences
Miklukho-Maklaya St., 16/10, GSP-7
Moscow, 117997, Russia
alne@ibch.ru
alexei_nekrasov@mail.ru

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