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Investigating Protein Sequence-structure-dynamics Relationships with Bio3D-web
Published on: July 16, 2017
Electrostatic similarity of proteins: application of three dimensional spherical harmonic decomposition
Maciej Długosz1, Joanna Trylska
1Interdisciplinary Centre for Mathematical and Computational Modelling, University of Warsaw, Zwirki i Wigury 93, Warsaw 02-089, Poland. mdlugosz@icm.edu.pl
Abstract:
We present a method for describing and comparing global electrostatic properties of biomolecules based on the spherical harmonic decomposition of electrostatic potential data. Unlike other approaches our method does not require any prior three dimensional structural alignment. The electrostatic potential, given as a volumetric data set from a numerical solution of the Poisson or Poisson-Boltzmann equation, is represented with descriptors that are rotation invariant. The method can be applied to large and structurally diverse sets of biomolecules enabling to cluster them according to their electrostatic features.
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