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NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH
Volume 51, Issue W1, Pages W11-W16Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkad349
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The AlphaFold2 prediction algorithm has allowed for the exploration of protein structural space on a large scale. A web application called alpha Charges has been introduced for the quick calculation of partial atomic charges for protein structures from AlphaFoldDB.
The AlphaFold2 prediction algorithm opened up the possibility of exploring proteins' structural space at an unprecedented scale. Currently, >200 million protein structures predicted by this approach are deposited in AlphaFoldDB, covering entire proteomes of multiple organisms, including humans. Predicted structures are, however, stored without detailed functional annotations describing their chemical behaviour. Partial atomic charges, which map electron distribution over a molecule and provide a clue to its chemical reactivity, are an important example of such data. We introduce the web application alpha Charges: a tool for the quick calculation of partial atomic charges for protein structures from AlphaFoldDB. The charges are calculated by the recent empirical method SQE+qp, parameterised for this class of molecules using robust quantum mechanics charges (B3LYP/6-31G*/NPA) on PROPKA3 protonated structures. The computed partial atomic charges can be downloaded in common data formats or visualised via the powerful Mol* viewer. The alpha Charges application is freely available at https://alphacharges.ncbr.muni.cz with no login requirement. [GRAPHICS] .
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