The Catalytic Site Atlas: a resource of catalytic sites and residues identified in enzymes using structural data

Nucleic Acids Res. 2004 Jan 1;32(Database issue):D129-33. doi: 10.1093/nar/gkh028.

Abstract

The Catalytic Site Atlas (CSA) provides catalytic residue annotation for enzymes in the Protein Data Bank. It is available online at http://www.ebi.ac.uk/thornton-srv/databases/CSA. The database consists of two types of annotated site: an original hand-annotated set containing information extracted from the primary literature, using defined criteria to assign catalytic residues, and an additional homologous set, containing annotations inferred by PSI-BLAST and sequence alignment to one of the original set. The CSA can be queried via Swiss-Prot identifier and EC number, as well as by PDB code. CSA Version 1.0 contains 177 original hand- annotated entries and 2608 homologous entries, and covers approximately 30% of all EC numbers found in PDB. The CSA will be updated on a monthly basis to include homologous sites found in new PDBs, and new hand-annotated enzymes as and when their annotation is completed.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Binding Sites
  • Catalysis
  • Computational Biology*
  • Databases, Protein*
  • Enzymes / chemistry*
  • Enzymes / metabolism*
  • Humans
  • Internet

Substances

  • Enzymes