Journal
PROTEIN ENGINEERING
Volume 13, Issue 10, Pages 679-689Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/protein/13.10.679
Keywords
contact potential; disulfide; fold recognition; protein structure prediction; threading
Funding
- NIGMS NIH HHS [GM59097-01, GM08270] Funding Source: Medline
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An energy potential is constructed and trained to succeed in fold recognition for the general population of proteins as well as an important class which has previously been problematic: small, disulfide-bearing proteins. The potential is modeled on solvation, with the energy a function of side chain burial and the number of disulfide bonds. An accurate disulfide recognition algorithm identifies cysteine pairs which have the appropriate orientation to form a disulfide bridge. The potential has 22 energy parameters which are optimized so the Protein Data Bank (PDB) structure for each sequence in a training set is the lowest in energy out of thousands of alternative structures. One parameter per amino acid type reflects burial preference and a single parameter is used in an overpacking term. Additionally, one optimized parameter provides a favorable contribution for each disulfide identified in a given protein structure. With little training, the potential is >80 % accurate in ungapped threading tests using a variety of proteins. The same level of accuracy is observed in a threading test of small proteins which have disulfide bonds. Importantly, the energy potential is also successful with proteins having uncrosslinked cysteines.
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