Identification of protein-protein interaction sites from docking energy landscapes |
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Authors: | Fernández-Recio Juan Totrov Maxim Abagyan Ruben |
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Institution: | Department of Molecular Biology, The Scripps Research Institute, 10550 North Torrey Pines Road, La Jolla, CA 92037, USA. |
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Abstract: | Protein recognition is one of the most challenging and intriguing problems in structural biology. Despite all the available structural, sequence and biophysical information about protein-protein complexes, the physico-chemical patterns, if any, that make a protein surface likely to be involved in protein-protein interactions, remain elusive. Here, we apply protein docking simulations and analysis of the interaction energy landscapes to identify protein-protein interaction sites. The new protocol for global docking based on multi-start global energy optimization of an all-atom model of the ligand, with detailed receptor potentials and atomic solvation parameters optimized in a training set of 24 complexes, explores the conformational space around the whole receptor without restrictions. The ensembles of the rigid-body docking solutions generated by the simulations were subsequently used to project the docking energy landscapes onto the protein surfaces. We found that highly populated low-energy regions consistently corresponded to actual binding sites. The procedure was validated on a test set of 21 known protein-protein complexes not used in the training set. As much as 81% of the predicted high-propensity patch residues were located correctly in the native interfaces. This approach can guide the design of mutations on the surfaces of proteins, provide geometrical details of a possible interaction, and help to annotate protein surfaces in structural proteomics. |
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Keywords: | protein-protein interactions binding site identification pseudo-Brownian Monte Carlo docking energy landscapes hot spots |
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