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JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Volume 317, Issue 3, Pages 375-384Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1006/jmbi.2002.5438
Keywords
low resolution; docking; macromolecular models; electron microscopy; structure modeling
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- NCRR NIH HHS [P41 RR 12255] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM62968] Funding Source: Medline
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A novel contour-based matching criterion is presented for the quantitative docking of high-resolution structures of components into low-resolution maps of macromolecular complexes. The proposed Laplacian filter is combined with a six-dimensional search using fast Fourier transforms to rapidly scan the rigid-body degrees of freedom of a probe molecule relative to a fixed target density map. A comparison of the docking performance with the standard cross-correlation criterion demonstrates that contour matching with the Laplacian filter significantly extends the viable resolution range of correlation-based fitting to resolutions as low as 30 Angstrom. The gain in docking precision at medium to low resolution (15-30 Angstrom) is critical for image reconstructions from electron microscopy (EM). The new algorithm enables for the first time the reliable docking of smaller molecular components into EM densities of large biomolecular assemblies at such low resolutions. As an example of the practical effectiveness of contour-based fitting, a new pseudo-atomic model of a microtubule was constructed from a 20 Angstrom resolution EM map and from atomic structures of alpha and beta tubulin subunits. (C) 2002 Elsevier Science Ltd.
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