TRITON: a graphical tool for ligand-binding protein engineering

Martin Prokop; Jan Adam; Zdenek Kríz; Michaela Wimmerová; Jaroslav Koca

doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btn344

TRITON: a graphical tool for ligand-binding protein engineering

Bioinformatics. 2008 Sep 1;24(17):1955-6. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btn344. Epub 2008 Jul 4.

Authors

Martin Prokop¹, Jan Adam, Zdenek Kríz, Michaela Wimmerová, Jaroslav Koca

Affiliation

¹ National Centre for Biomolecular Research and Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotlárská 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic.

Abstract

The new version of the TRITON program provides user-friendly graphical tools for modeling protein mutants using the external program MODELLER and for docking ligands into the mutants using the external program AutoDock. TRITON can now be used to design ligand-binding proteins, to study protein-ligand binding mechanisms or simply to dock any ligand to a protein.

Availability: Executable files of TRITON are available free of charge for academic users at http://ncbr.chemi.muni.cz/triton/

Publication types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

Algorithms
Binding Sites
Computer Graphics*
Computer Simulation
Drug Design
Ligands
Models, Chemical*
Models, Molecular*
Protein Binding
Protein Engineering / methods*
Proteins / chemistry*
Proteins / ultrastructure*
Software*
User-Computer Interface

Substances

Ligands
Proteins