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PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 80, Issue 7, Pages 1810-1817Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.24078
Keywords
biomolecular clustering; protein docking; fraction of common contacts
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- Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research [700.56.442]
- Utrecht University
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Inaccuracies in computational molecular modeling methods are often counterweighed by brute-force generation of a plethora of putative solutions. These are then typically sieved via structural clustering based on similarity measures such as the root mean square deviation (RMSD) of atomic positions. Albeit widely used, these measures suffer from several theoretical and technical limitations (e.g., choice of regions for fitting) that impair their application in multicomponent systems (N > 2), large-scale studies (e.g., interactomes), and other time-critical scenarios. We present here a simple similarity measure for structural clustering based on atomic contactsthe fraction of common contactsand compare it with the most used similarity measure of the protein docking communityinterface backbone RMSD. We show that this method produces very compact clusters in remarkably short time when applied to a collection of binary and multicomponent proteinprotein and proteinDNA complexes. Furthermore, it allows easy clustering of similar conformations of multicomponent symmetrical assemblies in which chain permutations can occur. Simple contact-based metrics should be applicable to other structural biology clustering problems, in particular for time-critical or large-scale endeavors.Proteins 2012; (c) 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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