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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 321, Issue 2, Pages 297-305Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-2836(02)00627-7
Keywords
elastic normal modes; vector quantization; codebook vectors; electron microscopy; conformational change
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- NCRR NIH HHS [RR12255] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM62968] Funding Source: Medline
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A theory of elastic normal modes is described for the exploration of global distortions of biological structures and their assemblies based upon low-resolution image data. Structural information at low resolution, e.g. from density maps measured by cryogenic electron microscopy (cryo-EM), is used to construct discrete multi-resolution models for the electron density using the techniques of vector quantization. The elastic normal modes computed based on these discretized low-resolution models are found to compare well with the normal modes obtained at atomic resolution. The quality of the normal modes describing global displacements of the molecular system is found to depend on the resolution of the synthetic EM data and the extent of reductionism in the discretized representation. However, models that reproduce the functional rearrangements of our test set of molecules are achieved for realistic values of experimental resolution. Thus large conformational changes as occur during the functioning of biological macromolecules and assemblies can be elucidated directly from low-resolution structural data through the application of elastic normal mode theory and vector quantization. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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