Comparative modeling of retinol-binding protein-3 and retinal S-antigen in Eales’ disease and prediction of their binding sites using computational methods

• DOI: 10.1007/s12177-011-9060-z
• Publication Date: 2011-07-25T02:18:14Z
• Authors: Anshul Tiwari; Ashish Chandra Tr...; Prachi Srivastava; Aditya Bhusan Pant; Sandeep Saxena
• Keywords: 0303 health sciences; 03 medical and health sciences

Retinal S-antigen and interphotoreceptor retinoid-binding protein-3 play a significant role in the etiopathogenesis of Eales' disease. Protein 3D structures are functionally very important and play a significant role in progression of the disease, hence these 3D structures are better target for further drug designing and relative studies. We developed 3D model structure of retinol-binding protein-3 and retinal S-antigen protein of human involved in Eales' disease. Functional site prediction is a very important and related step; hence, in the current course of analysis, we predicted putative functional site residues in the target proteins. Molecular models of these proteins of Eales' disease as documented in this study may provide a valuable aid for designing an inhibitor or better ligand against Eales' disease and could play a significant role in drug design.