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BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 23, Issue 13, Pages I175-I184Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm186
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R33 GM068400-01A2, R01 GM086238] Funding Source: Medline
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Motivation: A common practice in X-ray crystallographic structure refinement has been to model atomic displacements or thermal fluctuations as isotropic motions. Recent high-resolution data reveal, however, significant departures from isotropy, described by anisotropic displacement parameters (ADPs) modeled for individual atoms. Yet, ADPs are currently reported for a limited set of structures, only. Results: We present a comparative analysis of the experimentally reported ADPs and those theoretically predicted by the anisotropic network model (ANM) for a representative set of structures. The relative sizes of fluctuations along different directions are shown to agree well between experiments and theory, while the cross-correlations between the (x-, y- and z-) components of the fluctuations show considerable deviations. Secondary structure elements and protein cores exhibit more robust anisotropic characteristics compared to disordered or flexible regions. The deviations between experimental and theoretical data are comparable to those between sets of experimental ADPs reported for the same protein in different crystal forms. These results draw attention to the effects of crystal form and refinement procedure on experimental ADPs and highlight the potential utility of ANM calculations for consolidating experimental data or assessing ADPs in the absence of experimental data.
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