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We have used the OB-fold, a motif known to promote protein\u2013nucleic acid interactions, to validate our approach.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: We have tested the method using this well-characterized nucleic acid binding family. Protein regions consensually involved in statistically significant dynamics-based alignments were found to correlate with nucleic acid binding regions. The validated scheme was next used as a tool to predict which regions of the AXH-domain representatives (a sub-family of the OB-fold for which no DNA\/RNA complex is yet available) are putatively involved in binding nucleic acids. The method, therefore, is a promising general approach for predicting functional regions in protein families on the basis of comparative large-scale dynamics.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Availability: The software is available upon request from the authors, free of charge for academic users.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0michelet@sissa.it<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btp339","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2009,6,2]],"date-time":"2009-06-02T00:24:29Z","timestamp":1243902269000},"page":"1876-1883","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":26,"title":["Using dynamics-based comparisons to predict nucleic acid binding sites in proteins: an application to OB-fold domains"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"25","author":[{"given":"Andrea","family":"Zen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 SISSA, CNR-INFM Democritos and Italian Institute of Technology, Via Beirut 2, I-34151 Trieste, Italy and 2 National Institute for Medical Research, MRC, The Ridgeway, London NW71AA, UK"}]},{"given":"Cesira","family":"de Chiara","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 SISSA, CNR-INFM Democritos and Italian Institute of Technology, Via Beirut 2, I-34151 Trieste, Italy and 2 National Institute for Medical Research, MRC, The Ridgeway, London NW71AA, UK"}]},{"given":"Annalisa","family":"Pastore","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 SISSA, CNR-INFM Democritos and Italian Institute of Technology, Via Beirut 2, I-34151 Trieste, Italy and 2 National Institute for Medical Research, MRC, The Ridgeway, London NW71AA, UK"}]},{"given":"Cristian","family":"Micheletti","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"1 SISSA, CNR-INFM Democritos and Italian Institute of Technology, Via Beirut 2, I-34151 Trieste, Italy and 2 National Institute for Medical Research, MRC, The Ridgeway, London NW71AA, UK"}]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2009,5,31]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023013112045668700_B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"505","DOI":"10.1016\/S0006-3495(01)76033-X","article-title":"Anisotropy of fluctuation dynamics of proteins with an elastic network model","volume":"80","author":"Atilgan","year":"2001","journal-title":"Biophys. 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