Converting ChEMBL to sequence

This page gives you access to a subset of ChEMBL that has been converted to Protein Line Notation. A total of 27142 structures out of 39123 "peptide-like" structures have been successfully converted. More details on the conversion process can be found beneath the structure table.

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20 randomly selected converted structures

ChEMBL ID	ChEMBL structure	Converted sequence image	Proteax PLN (Protein Line Notation)
CHEMBL1688784			H-NPV-[CTerm_1032] name=CHEMBL1688784
CHEMBL413396			[acetyl]-[Res_1340][Res_1788]{d}WSYRLRPA-[NH2] name=CHEMBL413396
CHEMBL1241206			(cyclo)-[Res_2201]{d}[Res_488]F{d}F{d}V-(cyclo) name=CHEMBL1241206
CHEMBL1688640			[NTerm_1112]-KCPSRRPKRKLSSIESDV-OH name=CHEMBL1688640
CHEMBL1076081			[NTerm_242]-YYY-[CTerm_810] name=CHEMBL1076081
CHEMBL2096803			H-[Res_1700][Res_1354]P-[CTerm_801] name=CHEMBL2096803
CHEMBL1790907			[acetyl]-NSFTLDADF-OH name=CHEMBL1790907
CHEMBL1773874			H-ISEI[Res_2944][Res_2944]-OH name=CHEMBL1773874
CHEMBL3038091			(cyclo)-[N(Me)Bmt(E)][Abu][MeGly][N(Me)Leu(4S-5-Me)]V[MeLeu]A{d}A[MeLeu][MeLeu][MeVal]-(cyclo) name=CHEMBL3038091
CHEMBL68311			[NTerm_1620]-VPV-[CTerm_161] name=CHEMBL68311
CHEMBL189749			H-GQLD[Res_2201]ADG-OH name=CHEMBL189749
CHEMBL2371904			H-QQFFGL[Nle]-[CTerm_204] name=CHEMBL2371904
CHEMBL1076084			[NTerm_242]-YYY-[CTerm_70] name=CHEMBL1076084
CHEMBL2373297			H-SSC(1){d}FG{d}[Res_2666]RIDRIG{d}AQ{d}[Res_2666]G{d}LG{d}C(1)NSFR-[NH2] name=CHEMBL2373297
CHEMBL171676			[NTerm_700]-VPF-[CTerm_593] name=CHEMBL171676
CHEMBL1080328			H-[Res_346]{d}AS-OH name=CHEMBL1080328
CHEMBL524532			H-APRERRRKKRV-OH name=CHEMBL524532
CHEMBL1076613			H-[Res_1930]RVYIHPF-OH name=CHEMBL1076613
CHEMBL344616			[NTerm_1233]-AQLPG-[CTerm_721] name=CHEMBL344616
CHEMBL495689			(cyclo)-{d}P[Nle]KKR-(cyclo) name=CHEMBL495689

Conversion process

All structures in the ChEMBL 19 database were downloaded as an SD file and, with the help of KNIME, probable "peptide-like" structures were identified. The "peptide-like" structures were defined as those containing a substructure of three connected glysines. This yielded a "peptide-like" subset of 39123 structures.

The peptide subset was loaded into a PostgreSQL database table and the Biochemfusion Proteax cartridge was used to convert structures, when possible, to sequences. The first conversion took 87 seconds and produced 27142 converted sequences.

You can download the full set of produced sequences (TAB-separated file with ChEMBL ID + PLN, ~11MB).

All found unknown residues and terminal structures were embedded as inline structures in the first round of produced PLN. The embedded structures were then de-duplicated and extracted. You can download the structure sets in gzip-ed SD file format from here:

N-terminals, 1699 structures, 420 kB
C-terminals, 1270 structures, 333 kB
Residues, 3030 structures, 726 kB

143 of the unknown residue structures have been assigned well-defined names by NextMove Software's great Sugar & Splice tool (press the "Biologics" button). Many thanks to Roger Sayle at NextMove Software for processing this subset of residues with Sugar & Splice.

NextMove's residue names can be applied to a Proteax modification database (where the above SD files have been imported) by the following SQL script:

Residue names update script, 143 name assigments, 18 kB

The currently produced PLN has been generated after all the above data has been loaded into Proteax's database of known structures. As you will see, most of the non-natural residues and terminals have auto-generated names based on sequential numbers.