Specific interactions for ab initio folding of protein terminal regions with secondary structures |
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Authors: | Yang Yuedong Zhou Yaoqi |
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Affiliation: | Indiana University School of Informatics, Indianapolis, Indiana 46202, USA. |
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Abstract: | Proteins fold into unique three-dimensional structures by specific, orientation-dependent interactions between amino acid residues. Here, we extract orientation-dependent interactions from protein structures by treating each polar atom as a dipole with a direction. The resulting statistical energy function successfully refolds 13 out of 16 fully unfolded secondary-structure terminal regions of 10-23 amino acid residues in 15 small proteins. Dissecting the orientation-dependent energy function reveals that the orientation preference between hydrogen-bonded atoms is not enough to account for the structural specificity of proteins. The result has significant implications on the theoretical and experimental searches for specific interactions involved in protein folding and molecular recognition between proteins and other biologically active molecules. |
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Keywords: | knowledge‐based potential structure prediction hydrogen bonding polar interactions orientation dependent potential |
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