Journal
STRUCTURE
Volume 13, Issue 9, Pages 1311-1319Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2005.06.008
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Although X-ray crystallography remains the most versatile method to determine the three-dimensional atomic structure of proteins and much progress has been made in model building and refinement techniques, it remains a challenge to elucidate accurately the structure of proteins in medium-resolution crystals. This is largely due to the difficulty of exploring an immense conformational space to identify the set of conformers that collectively best fits the experimental diffraction pattern. We show here that combining knowledge-based conformational sampling in RAPPER with molecular dynamics/simulated annealing (MD/SA) vastly improves the quality and power of refinement compared to MD/SA alone. The utility of this approach is highlighted by the automated determination of a lysozyme mutant from a molecular replacement solution that is in congruence with a model prepared independently by crystallographers. Finally, we discuss the implications of this work on structure determination in particular and conformational sampling and energy minimization in general.
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