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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
Assembly of protein tertiary structures from secondary structures using optimized potentials
Trinh Xuan Hoang1, Flavio Seno, Jayanth R Banavar
1The Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Trieste, Italy. hoang@sissa.it
Abstract:
We present a simulated annealing-based method for the prediction of the tertiary structures of proteins given knowledge of the secondary structure associated with each amino acid in the sequence. The backbone is represented in a detailed fashion whereas the sidechains and pairwise interactions are modeled in a simplified way, following the LINUS model of Srinivasan and Rose. A perceptron-based technique is used to optimize the interaction potentials for a training set of three proteins. For these proteins, the procedure is able to reproduce the tertiary structures to below 3 A in root mean square deviation (rmsd) from the PDB targets. We present the results of tests on twelve other proteins. For half of these, the lowest energy decoy has a rmsd from the native state below 6 A and, in 9 out of 12 cases, we obtain decoys whose rmsd from the native states are also well below 5 A.
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