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JOURNAL OF BIOMOLECULAR STRUCTURE & DYNAMICS
Volume 41, Issue 7, Pages 2937-2946Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2022.2042386
Keywords
Protein design; Monte-Carlo parallel search algorithm; protein sequence-structure compatibility; high native sequence recapitulation; altering molecular functionality
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De-novo protein design explores unexplored sequence space and an efficient search algorithm is proposed for better sequence-structure compatibility in protein design. The algorithm exhibits good performance with low deviations and high recapitulation of core residues, while introducing new molecular functions.
De-novo protein design explores the untapped sequence space that is otherwise less discovered during the evolutionary process. This necessitates an efficient sequence space search engine for effective convergence in computational protein design. We propose a greedy simulated annealing-based Monte-Carlo parallel search algorithm for better sequence-structure compatibility probing in protein design. The guidance provided by the evolutionary profile, the greedy approach, and the cooling schedule adopted in the Monte Carlo simulation ensures sufficient exploration and exploitation of the search space leading to faster convergence. On evaluating the proposed algorithm, we find that a dataset of 76 target scaffolds report an average root-mean-square-deviation (RMSD) of 1.07 angstrom and an average TM-Score of 0.93 with the modeled designed protein sequences. High sequence recapitulation of 48.7% (59.4%) observed in the design sequences for all (hydrophobic) solvent-inaccessible residues again establish the goodness of the proposed algorithm. A high (93.4%) intra-group recapitulation of hydrophobic residues in the solvent-inaccessible region indicates that the proposed protein design algorithm preserves the core residues in the protein and provides alternative residue combinations in the solvent-accessible regions of the target protein. Furthermore, a COFACTOR-based protein functional analysis shows that the design sequences exhibit altered molecular functionality and introduce new molecular functions compared to the target scaffolds. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
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