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- Bin Qian
(University of Washington, Box 357350, Seattle 98195, USA)
- Srivatsan Raman
(University of Washington, Box 357350, Seattle 98195, USA)
- Rhiju Das
(University of Washington, Box 357350, Seattle 98195, USA)
- Philip Bradley
(University of Washington, Box 357350, Seattle 98195, USA)
- Airlie J. McCoy
(University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK)
- Randy J. Read
(University of Cambridge, Cambridge Institute for Medical Research, Wellcome Trust/MRC Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, UK)
- David Baker
(University of Washington, Box 357350, Seattle 98195, USA)
Abstract
The energy-based refinement of low-resolution protein structure models to atomic-level accuracy is a major challenge for computational structural biology. Here we describe a new approach to refining protein structure models that focuses sampling in regions most likely to contain errors while allowing the whole structure to relax in a physically realistic all-atom force field. In applications to models produced using nuclear magnetic resonance data and to comparative models based on distant structural homologues, the method can significantly improve the accuracy of the structures in terms of both the backbone conformations and the placement of core side chains. Furthermore, the resulting models satisfy a particularly stringent test: they provide significantly better solutions to the X-ray crystallographic phase problem in molecular replacement trials. Finally, we show that all-atom refinement can produce de novo protein structure predictions that reach the high accuracy required for molecular replacement without any experimental phase information and in the absence of templates suitable for molecular replacement from the Protein Data Bank. These results suggest that the combination of high-resolution structure prediction with state-of-the-art phasing tools may be unexpectedly powerful in phasing crystallographic data for which molecular replacement is hindered by the absence of sufficiently accurate previous models.
Suggested Citation
Bin Qian & Srivatsan Raman & Rhiju Das & Philip Bradley & Airlie J. McCoy & Randy J. Read & David Baker, 2007.
"High-resolution structure prediction and the crystallographic phase problem,"
Nature, Nature, vol. 450(7167), pages 259-264, November.
Handle:
RePEc:nat:nature:v:450:y:2007:i:7167:d:10.1038_nature06249
DOI: 10.1038/nature06249
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- Sneha Vishwanath & Alexandre G de Brevern & Narayanaswamy Srinivasan, 2018.
"Same but not alike: Structure, flexibility and energetics of domains in multi-domain proteins are influenced by the presence of other domains,"
PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 14(2), pages 1-26, February.
- Brian A Kidd & David Baker & Wendy E Thomas, 2009.
"Computation of Conformational Coupling in Allosteric Proteins,"
PLOS Computational Biology, Public Library of Science, vol. 5(8), pages 1-10, August.
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