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Title:	NCAD, a database integrating the intrinsic conformational preferences of non-coded amino acids
Author:	Alemán Llansó, Carlos; Grodzinski, Piotr; Nussinov, Ruth; Revilla López, Guillermo; Torras Costa, Juan; Curcó, David; Casanovas, Jordi; Calaza, Maria Isabel; Zanuy Gomara, David; Jimenez Sanz, Ana Isabel; Cativiela, Carlos
Other authors:	Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament d'Enginyeria Química; Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. IMEM - Innovació, Modelització i Enginyeria en (BIO) Materials
Abstract:	Peptides and proteins find an ever-increasing number of applications in the biomedical and materials engineering fields. The use of non-proteinogenic amino acids endowed with diverse physicochemical and structural features opens the possibility to design proteins and peptides with novel properties and functions. Moreover, nonproteinogenic residues are particularly useful to control the three-dimensional arrangement of peptidic chains, which is a crucial issue for most applications. However, information regarding such amino acidssalso called non-coded, non-canonical, or non-standardsis usually scattered among publications specialized in quite diverse fields as well as in patents. Making all these data useful to the scientific community requires new tools and a framework for their assembly and coherent organization. We have successfully compiled, organized, and built a database (NCAD, Non-Coded Amino acids Database) containing information about the intrinsic conformational preferences of non-proteinogenic residues determined by quantum mechanical calculations, as well as bibliographic information about their synthesis, physical and spectroscopic characterization, conformational propensities established experimentally, and applications. The architecture of the database is presented in this work together with the first family of non-coded residues included, namely, R-tetrasubstituted R-amino acids. Furthermore, the NCAD usefulness is demonstrated through a test-case application example.
Abstract:	Peer Reviewed
Subject(s):	-Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Enginyeria química::Química física -Proteïnes -- Anàlisi -- Bases de dades -Pèptids -- Anàlisi
Rights:	Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Spain http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/
Document type:	Article - Published version Article
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