Reconstruction and stability of secondary structure elements in the context of protein structure prediction
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
6-3-2009
Department
Department of Physics
Abstract
Efficient and accurate reconstruction of secondary structure elements in the context of protein structure prediction is the major focus of this work. We present a novel approach capable of reconstructing α-helices and β-sheets in atomic detail. The method is based on Metropolis Monte Carlo simulations in a force field of empirical potentials that are designed to stabilize secondary structure elements in room-temperature simulations. Particular attention is paid to lateral side-chain interactions in β-sheets and between the turns of α-helices, as well as backbone hydrogen bonding. The force constants are optimized using contrastive divergence, a novel machine learning technique, from a data set of known structures. Using this approach, we demonstrate the applicability of the framework to the problem of reconstructing the overall protein fold for a number of commonly studied small proteins, based on only predicted secondary structure and contact map. For protein G and chymotrypsin inhibitor 2, we are able to reconstruct the secondary structure elements in atomic detail and the overall protein folds with a root mean-square deviation of < 10 Å. For cold-shock protein and the SH3 domain, we accurately reproduce the secondary structure elements and the topology of the 5-stranded β-sheets, but not the barrel structure. The importance of high-quality secondary structure and contact map prediction is discussed.
Publication Title
Biophysical Journal
Recommended Citation
Podtelezhnikov, A.,
&
Wild, D.
(2009).
Reconstruction and stability of secondary structure elements in the context of protein structure prediction.
Biophysical Journal,
96(11), 4399-4408.
http://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2009.02.057
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