GALT Protein Database, a Bioinformatics Resource for the Management and Analysis of Structural Features of a Galactosemia-related Protein and Its Mutants

作     者：Antonio d’Acierno Angelo Facchiano Anna Marabotti 

作者机构：Laboratory of Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Institute of Food Science Italian National Research Council (CNR) 

出 版 物：《Genomics, Proteomics & Bioinformatics》 (基因组蛋白质组与生物信息学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2009年第7卷第1期

页      面：71-76页

核心收录：

学科分类：0710[理学-生物学] 071010[理学-生物化学与分子生物学] 081704[工学-应用化学] 1001[医学-基础医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 07[理学] 08[工学] 0817[工学-化学工程与技术] 0714[理学-统计学（可授理学、经济学学位）] 0703[理学-化学] 0701[理学-数学] 0812[工学-计算机科学与技术（可授工学、理学学位）] 

基　　金：This work has been devel-oped in the frame of the CNR-Bioinformatics Project 

主　　题：database mutation homology modeling galactosemia GALT enzyme 

摘      要：We describe the GALT-Prot database and its related web-based application that have been developed to collect information about the structural and functional effects of mutations on the human enzyme galactose-l-phosphate uridyltransferase （GALT） involved in the genetic disease named galactosemia type I. Besides a list of missense mutations at gene and protein sequence levels, GALT-Prot reports the analysis results of mutant GALT structures. In addition to the structural information about the wild-type enzyme, the database also includes structures of over 100 single point mutants simulated by means of a computational procedure, and the analysis to each mutant was made with several bioinformatics programs in order to investigate the effect of the mutations. The web-based interface allows querying of the database, and several links are also provided in order to guarantee a high integration with other resources already present on the web. Moreover, the architecture of the database and the web application is flexible and can be easily adapted to store data related to other proteins with point mutations. GALT-Prot is freely available at http：//***/GALT/.