Sampling Realistic Protein Conformations Using Local Structural Bias

Thomas Wim Hamelryck; John T. Kent; A. Krogh

doi:10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020131

Sampling Realistic Protein Conformations Using Local Structural Bias

Thomas Wim Hamelryck, John T. Kent, A. Krogh

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Abstract

The prediction of protein structure from sequence remains a major unsolved problem in biology. The most successful protein structure prediction methods make use of a divide-and-conquer strategy to attack the problem: a conformational sampling method generates plausible candidate structures, which are subsequently accepted or rejected using an energy function. Conceptually, this often corresponds to separating local structural bias from the long-range interactions that stabilize the compact, native state. However, sampling protein conformations that are compatible with the local structural bias encoded in a given protein sequence is a long-standing open problem, especially in continuous space. We describe an elegant and mathematically rigorous method to do this, and show that it readily generates native-like protein conformations simply by enforcing compactness. Our results have far-reaching implications for protein structure prediction, determination, simulation, and design.

Original language	English
Journal	PLoS ONE
Volume	2
Issue number	9
Pages (from-to)	e131
ISSN	1932-6203
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020131
Publication status	Published - 2006

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