Depicting Peptides

Problem

You want to depict a molecule as a peptide i.e. a series of amino acid components. See example in Figure 1.

../_images/OEDrawPeptide-Oxytocin.png

Figure 1. Example of depicting oxytocin as a molecule (on the left) and as a peptide (on the right)

Ingredients

Difficulty Level

../_images/chilly.png

Solution

The GraphSim TK provides a function called OEDrawPeptide that depicts a molecule as a peptide. It identifies standard amino acids components in the molecule and substitute them with circular glyphs and their corresponding code either 3-letter or single letter.

        oechem.OEThrow.Fatal("Unknown image type!")

    ofs = oechem.oeofstream()
    if not ofs.open(oname):
        oechem.OEThrow.Fatal("Cannot open output file!")

    # read a molecules

    mol = oechem.OEGraphMol()

Download code

peptide2img.py and supporting data oxytocin.ism

Usage:

prompt > python3 peptide2img.py oxytocin.ism oxytocin.png

Discussion

If svg image file format, the peptide can be depicted in interactive mode. When the mouse is hovered over any glyph the corresponding amino acid is depicted.

prompt > python3 peptide2img.py -in oxytocin.ism -out oxytocin.svg -labelstyle threeletters
prompt > python3 peptide2img.py -in oxytocin.ism -out oxytocin.svg -labelstyle singleletter
Table 2. Example of depicting L- and D- Serine
../_images/peptide2img-oxytocin-threeletters.svg ../_images/peptide2img-oxytocin-singleletter.svg

Note

The generated interactive svg images should be included into and HTML page with the SVG MIME type.

<object data="<imagename>.svg" type="image/svg+xml"></object>

The amino acids that are appears naturally in proteins are the L-stereoisomers. These are labeled with corresponding 3-letter codes: such as Ser for L-Serine. Their enantiomers are distinguished by adding the “D-” prefix to their 3-letter code: such as D-Ser for D-Serine.

Table 2. Example of depicting L- and D- Serine
../_images/peptide2img-peptide-L.svg ../_images/peptide2img-peptide-D.svg

See also in OEDepict TK manual

Theory

API

See also in GraphemeTM TK manual

API