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We, thus, aim to determine the pairwise sequence identity necessary to maintain the transmembrane molecular architectures compatible with the hydrophobic nature of the lipid bilayer.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Root-mean-square deviation (rmsd) and sequence identity were calculated from the structural alignments of pairs of homologous polytopic membrane proteins sharing the same fold. Analysis of these data reveals that transmembrane segment pairs with sequence identity in the so-called \u2018twilight zone\u2019 (20\u201335%) display high-structural similarity (rmsd &amp;lt; 1.5 \u00c5). Moreover, a large group of \u03b2-barrel pairs with low-sequence identity (&amp;lt;20%) still maintain a close structural similarity (rmsd &amp;lt; 2.5 \u00c5). Thus, we conclude that fold preservation in transmembrane regions requires less sequence conservation than for globular proteins. These findings have direct implications in homology modeling of evolutionary-related membrane proteins.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0Mireia.Olivella@uvic.cat or Xavier.Deupi@psi.ch<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btt249","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,16]],"date-time":"2013-05-16T01:00:44Z","timestamp":1368666044000},"page":"1589-1592","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":75,"title":["Relation between sequence and structure in membrane proteins"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"29","author":[{"given":"Mireia","family":"Olivella","sequence":"first","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Angel","family":"Gonzalez","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Leonardo","family":"Pardo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]},{"given":"Xavier","family":"Deupi","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[]}],"member":"286","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2013,5,14]]},"reference":[{"key":"2023062614232365400_btt249-B1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"1130","DOI":"10.1016\/j.drudis.2009.08.006","article-title":"Computational analysis of membrane proteins: the largest class of drug targets","volume":"14","author":"Arinaminpathy","year":"2009","journal-title":"Drug. 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