ThermoMutDB: a thermodynamic database for missense mutations.

Joicymara S Xavier; Thanh-Binh Nguyen; Malancha Karmarkar; Stephanie Portelli; Pâmela M Rezende; João P L Velloso; David B Ascher; Douglas E V Pires
Abstract
Proteins are intricate, dynamic structures, and small changes in their amino acid sequences can lead to large effects on their folding, stability and dynamics. To facilitate the further development and evaluation of methods to predict these changes, we have developed ThermoMutDB, a manually curated database containing >14,669 experimental data of thermodynamic parameters for wild type and mutant proteins. This represents an increase of 83% in unique mutations over previous databases and includes thermodynamic information on 204 new proteins. During manual curation we have also corrected annotation errors in previously curated entries. Associated with each entry, we have included information on the unfolding Gibbs free energy and melting temperature change, and have associated entries with available experimental structural information. ThermoMutDB supports users to contribute to new data points and programmatic access to the database via a RESTful API. ThermoMutDB is freely available at: http://biosig.unimelb.edu.au/thermomutdb.
Journal NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
ISSN 1362-4962
Published 08 Jan 2021
Volume 49
Issue D1
Pages D475-D479
DOI 10.1093/nar/gkaa925
Type Journal Article | Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sponsorship