Development of a four-body statistical pseudo-potential to discriminate native from non-native protein conformations |
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Authors: | Krishnamoorthy Bala Tropsha Alexander |
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Affiliation: | Department of Operations Research, CB 3180, UNC Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA. |
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Abstract: | MOTIVATION: Most scoring functions used in protein fold recognition employ two-body (pseudo) potential energies. The use of higher-order terms may improve the performance of current algorithms. Methods: Proteins are represented by the side chain centroids of amino acids. Delaunay tessellation of this representation defines all sets of nearest neighbor quadruplets of amino acids. Four-body contact scoring function (log likelihoods of residue quadruplet compositions) is derived by the analysis of a diverse set of proteins with known structures. A test protein is characterized by the total score calculated as the sum of the individual log likelihoods of composing amino acid quadruplets. RESULTS: The scoring function distinguishes native from partially unfolded or deliberately misfolded structures. It also discriminates between pre- and post-transition state and native structures in the folding simulations trajectory of Chymotrypsin Inhibitor 2 (CI2). |
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