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  • Computational Biology
  • Molecular Dynamics
  • Biophysics

Background:

  • Experimental techniques face limitations in resolving the time and spatial dynamics of biological molecules.
  • Computer simulations are often too short to reliably sample rare conformational events in biomolecules.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and validate the progress index-guided sampling (PIGS) protocol for enhanced sampling of rare events.
  • To demonstrate PIGS's ability to focus sampling on specific biomolecular regions without system-wide perturbation.
  • To showcase the application of PIGS in uncovering metastable states for virtual screening.

Main Methods:

  • The progress index-guided sampling (PIGS) protocol was employed to enhance conformational sampling.
  • The method requires a set of features representing specific regions of interest in biomolecules.
  • New states are discovered through spontaneous fluctuations in an unsupervised manner within the feature space.

Main Results:

  • PIGS successfully enhanced sampling of rare events in selected biomolecular regions.
  • The protocol is easy to use, requiring only feature-based input for targeted regions.
  • Application to bromodomain binding site loops revealed structurally and kinetically distant metastable states.

Conclusions:

  • PIGS offers a powerful and user-friendly approach to focused conformational sampling in biomolecules.
  • The method effectively uncovers rare and metastable states, overcoming limitations of standard simulations.
  • Discovered representative conformations are valuable for future high-throughput virtual screening campaigns.