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Abstract: The database details the interactions of extruded, unpaired RNA nucleotide bases. It presents and classifies the protein binding pockets that accommodate them. It allows the recognition of similar protein binding patters involved in interactions with different RNA molecules. Given an unbound structure of a target protein it allows the prediction of its RNA nucleotide binding sites.
RsiteDB has two modes of operation.

Analysis and classification of protein-RNA interactions: Given a protein-RNA complex RsiteDB analyzes its nucleotide and dinucleotide binding sites. It details the properties of the protein binding pockets that accommodate these extruded nucleotides and presents a list of proteins with similar binding pockets. These proteins may have a totally different overall sequences and structural folds. RsiteDB details and visualizes the features shared by all the binding sites classified to the same cluster.

Prediction of RNA dinucleotide binding sites: Given a target, potentially unbound, protein structure we search its surface for regions similar to the created 3-D consensus binding patterns of RNA dinucleotides. The recognized regions are predicted to serve as binding sites. Using leave-one-out tests, the success rate of these predictions was estimated to be about 80%. It must be noted that currently we do not aim to predict whether a protein can bind RNA; rather, given an unbound RNA binding protein, our goal is to predict its binding sites and their modes of interaction. In addition, due to a low number of singlenucleotide clusters, currently, we do not use them for the prediction.


Reference: Shulman-Peleg A, Shatsky M, Nussinov R. and Wolfson H. J. (2008) Prediction of interacting single-stranded RNA bases by protein binding patterns, Journal of Molecular Biology, Vol 379, pp 299-316.
Email:shulmana@tau.ac.il, ppdock@tau.ac.il