简介：UnderstandingthecouplingspecificitybetweenGprotein-coupledreceptors(GPCRs)andspecificclassesofGproteinsisimportantforfurtherelucidationofreceptorfunctionswithinacell.IncreasinginformationonGPCRsequencesandtheGproteinfamilywouldfacilitatepredictionofthecouplingpropertiesofGPCRs.Inthisstudy,wedescribeanovelapproachforpredictingthecouplingspecificitybetweenGPCRsandGproteins.ThismethodusesnotonlyGPCRsequencesbutalsothefunctionalknowledgegeneratedbynaturallanguagepro-cessing,andcanachieve92.2%predictionaccuracybyusingtheC4.5algorithm.Furthermore,rulesrelatedtoGPCR-Gproteincouplingaregenerated.Thecom-binationofsequenceanalysisandtextminingimprovesthepredictionaccuracyforGPCR-Gproteincouplingspecificity,andalsoprovidescluesforunderstandingGPCRsignaling.

简介：WedescribetheGALT-Protdatabaseanditsrelatedweb-basedapplicationthathavebeendevelopedtocollectinformationaboutthestructuralandfunctionaleffectsofmutationsonthehumanenzymegalactose-1-phosphateuridyltransferase(GALT)involvedinthegeneticdiseasenamedgalactosemiatypeI.Besidesalistofmissensemutationsatgeneandproteinsequencelevels,GALT-ProtreportstheanalysisresultsofmutantGALTstructures.Inadditiontothestructuralinformationaboutthewild-typeenzyme,thedatabasealsoincludesstructuresofover100singlepointmutantssimulatedbymeansofacomputationalprocedure,andtheanalysistoeachmutantwasmadewithseveralbioinformaticsprogramsinordertoinvestigatetheeffectofthemutations.Theweb-basedinterfaceallowsqueryingofthedatabase,andseverallinksarealsoprovidedinordertoguaranteeahighintegrationwithotherresourcesalreadypresentontheweb.Moreover,thearchitectureofthedatabaseandthewebapplicationisflexibleandcanbeeasilyadaptedtostoredatarelatedtootherproteinswithpointmutations.GALT-Protisfreelyavailableathttp://bioinformatica.isa.cnr.it/GALT/.