Shape complementarity at protein/protein interfaces - PubMed (original) (raw)

. 1993 Dec 20;234(4):946-50.

doi: 10.1006/jmbi.1993.1648.

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Shape complementarity at protein/protein interfaces

M C Lawrence et al. J Mol Biol. 1993.

Abstract

A new statistic Sc, which has a number of advantages over other measures of packing, is used to examine the shape complementarity of protein/protein interfaces selected from the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank. It is shown using Sc that antibody/antigen interfaces as a whole exhibit poorer shape complementarity than is observed in other systems involving protein/protein interactions. This result can be understood in terms of the fundamentally different evolutionary history of particular antibody/antigen associations compared to other systems considered, and in terms of the differing chemical natures of the interfaces.

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