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PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 59, Issue 1, Pages 49-57Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/prot.20380
Keywords
protein folding; protein structure prediction; threading; residue-based contact potentials; statistical potentials; knowledge-based potentials
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- NIGMS NIH HHS [R21 GM066387, R01 GM072014, R33 GM066387, R21 GM066387-02] Funding Source: Medline
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We have analyzed 29 different published matrices of protein pairwise contact potentials (CPs) between amino acids derived from different sets of proteins, either crystallographic structures taken from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) or computer-generated decoys. Each of the CPs is similar to 1 of the 2 matrices derived in the work of Miyazawa and Jernigan (Proteins 1999;34:49-68). The CP matrices of the first class can be approximated with a correlation of order 0.9 by the formula e(ij) = h(i) + h(j), 1 less than or equal to i, j less than or equal to 20, where the residue-type dependent factor h is highly correlated with the frequency of occurrence of a given amino acid type inside proteins. Electrostatic interactions for the potentials of this class are almost negligible. In the potentials belonging to this class, the major contribution to the potentials is the one-body transfer energy of the amino acid from water to the protein environment. Potentials belonging to the second class can be approximated with a correlation of 0.9 by the formula e(ij) = c(0) - h(i)h(j) + q(i)q(j), where c(0) is a constant, h is highly correlated with the Kyte-Doolittle hydrophobicity scale, and a new, less dominant, residue-type dependent factor q is correlated (similar to0.9) with amino acid isoelectric points pI. Including electrostatic interactions significantly improves the approximation for this class of potentials. While, the high correlation between potentials of the first class and the hydrophobic transfer energies is well known, the fact that this approximation can work well also for the second class of potentials is a new finding. We interpret potentials of this class as representing energies of contact of amino acid pairs within an average protein environment. (C) 2005 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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