摘要
Copper and iron play important roles in a variety of biological processes, especially when being chelated with proteins. The proteins involved in the metal binding, transporting and metabolism have aroused much interest. To facilitate the study on this topic, we constructed two databases （DCCP and DICP） containing the known copper- and iron-chelating proteins~ which are freely available from the website http：//sdbi.sdut.edu.cn/en. Users can conveniently search and browse all of the entries in the databases. Based on the two databases, bioinformatic analyses were performed, which provided some novel insights into metalloproteins.
Copper and iron play important roles in a variety of biological processes, especially when being chelated with proteins. The proteins involved in the metal binding, transporting and metabolism have aroused much interest. To facilitate the study on this topic, we constructed two databases （DCCP and DICP） containing the known copper- and iron-chelating proteins~ which are freely available from the website http：//sdbi.sdut.edu.cn/en. Users can conveniently search and browse all of the entries in the databases. Based on the two databases, bioinformatic analyses were performed, which provided some novel insights into metalloproteins.
基金
This work was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2003CB114400)
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.30100035).
