CBD Finder 

Tool to find cholesterol binding moeties (CRAC, CARC, and GXXXG motifs) in protein sequences

Tool to find cholesterol binding moeties (CRAC, CARC, or GXXXG motifs) in a protein

 

 

 

Citation

If you use the tool please consider citing the following paper

  • Sahu, V. K., Lokhande, K. B., Swamy, V. K., Basu, S., & Ranjan, A. (2025). Role of the transmembrane polar residues on CD151 in cholesterol binding. In Journal of Biomolecular Structure and Dynamics (pp. 1–13). Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/07391102.2024.2446663

References

  1. Fantini et al. (How cholesterol interacts with membrane proteins: an exploration of cholesterol-binding sites including CRAC, CARC, and tilted domains)
  2. Scala et al. (Relevance of CARC and CRAC Cholesterol-Recognition Motifs in the Nicotinic Acetylcholine Receptor and Other Membrane-Bound Receptors)
  3. Ranjan et al. (Role of the transmembrane polar residues on CD151 in cholesterol binding)