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Streamlined Postprocessing of NMR Structures with the Molecular Restrainer: A Universal Tool for High-Quality
Jiří Mareš1, Guneet Singh Tarang1, Dmitriy Marin2
1Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Vienna, Josef-Holaubek-Platz 2, 1090 Vienna, Austria.
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We present a molecular restrainer tool capable of energy-minimizing NMR-derived structures using the universal force field (UFF) and NOE-derived distance restraints. The implementation is a part of SAMSON (version 2024 and newer), an integrative molecular design platform. The strength of our tool lies in its ability to swiftly process any molecule and molecular complex without the need to create force field parameters and topology files. We show, using examples, that the quality of these refined structures is significantly improved compared to the starting structures derived by CYANA. Currently, the implementation is targeted toward the postprocessing of structures derived by the software CYANA but can easily be adapted to other molecular restraint formats. This tool enables the generation of publication-ready protein-ligand complex structures for PDB deposition, requiring minimal additional effort beyond the initial NMR structure calculation.
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