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BIOPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 114, 期 4, 页码 856-869出版社
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2018.01.002
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- National Institutes of Health [R01GM079440]
- National Science Foundation [MCB1412108]
Hydrodynamic properties are useful parameters for estimating the size and shape of proteins and nucleic acids in solution. The calculation of such properties from structural models informs on the solution properties of these molecules and complements corresponding structural studies. Here we report, to our knowledge, a new method to accurately predict the hydrodynamic properties of molecular structures. This method uses a convex hull model to estimate the hydrodynamic volume of the molecule and is orders of magnitude faster than common methods. It works well for both folded proteins and ensembles of conformationally heterogeneous proteins and for nucleic acids. Because of its simplicity and speed, the method should be useful for the modification of computer-generated, intrinsically disordered protein ensembles and ensembles of flexible, but folded, molecules in which rapid calculation of experimental parameters is needed. The convex hull method is implemented in a Python script called HulIRad. The use of the method is facilitated by a web server and the code is freely available for batch applications.
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