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)
CHEMBL265913			H-SS{d}C(1)G{d}FGG{d}RI{d}DRI{d}C(1){d}FR-OH name=CHEMBL265913
CHEMBL2335466			H-KLGQIGRAKRVVI-OH name=CHEMBL2335466
CHEMBL326235			H-{d}[Res_966]AGFL-[NH2] name=CHEMBL326235
CHEMBL446765			[acetyl]-[Res_1028]{d}[Res_733]{d}[Res_733]{d}[Res_733]-[NH2] name=CHEMBL446765
CHEMBL265222			[NTerm_441]-[MeLeu][Res_1196][MeVal]{d}[Res_1508]-[CTerm_455] name=CHEMBL265222
CHEMBL2147249			[acetyl]-EYFE[Res_1006]-[CTerm_1155] name=CHEMBL2147249
CHEMBL1076407			H-[PyGlu]GVC(1)C(2)G[Res_2944]KLC(2)H[Res_2532]C(1)-OH name=CHEMBL1076407
CHEMBL503011			[acetyl]-F{d}PF{d}W-[NH2] name=CHEMBL503011
CHEMBL1985186			H-[Res_1189]HWSYWLRP-[CTerm_258] name=CHEMBL1985186
CHEMBL1256094			[NTerm_820]-RWF-[CTerm_415] name=CHEMBL1256094
CHEMBL446844			H-SPMFKGV-[CTerm_423] name=CHEMBL446844
CHEMBL1791235			H-YADAIFTNSYRKVL[Abu]QLSARKLLQDIMSR-[NH2] name=CHEMBL1791235
CHEMBL1076032			[NTerm_1338]-HHS-[CTerm_54] name=CHEMBL1076032
CHEMBL1790920			[acetyl]-FTLDADFAA-OH name=CHEMBL1790920
CHEMBL2316465			[NTerm_567]-VL[Res_2861]-[CTerm_1150] name=CHEMBL2316465
CHEMBL315765			[NTerm_820]-{d}[Res_2336][Res_1762]L-[NH2] name=CHEMBL315765
CHEMBL400780			H-C(1)VVQDWGHARC(1)-OH name=CHEMBL400780
CHEMBL1222081			[NTerm_1270]-SQGTFTSDYSKYLD[Res_1424]RRAQDFVQWLMNT-[NH2] name=CHEMBL1222081
CHEMBL429947			[acetyl]-LLR-[Unknown_terminal_1] name=CHEMBL429947 inline-mod=C-terminal,[Unknown_terminal_1],H1,QkNGTRECAW/YEQDL/54A740TAMv/ngEAARhSAgABGg==
CHEMBL341234			[NTerm_820]-VL{d}R-[CTerm_115] name=CHEMBL341234

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.