A method for predicting protein structure from sequence

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Jeffrey SkolnickA Rey

Abstract

The ability to predict the native conformation of a globular protein from its amino-acid sequence is an important unsolved problem of molecular biology. We have previously reported a method in which reduced representations of proteins are folded on a lattice by Monte Carlo simulation, using statistically-derived potentials. When applied to sequences designed to fold into four-helix bundles, this method generated predicted conformations closely resembling the real ones. We now report a hierarchical approach to protein-structure prediction, in which two cycles of the above-mentioned lattice method (the second on a finer lattice) are followed by a full-atom molecular dynamics simulation. The end product of the simulations is thus a full-atom representation of the predicted structure. The application of this procedure to the 60 residue, B domain of staphylococcal protein A predicts a three-helix bundle with a backbone root mean square (rms) deviation of 2.25-3 A from the experimentally determined structure. Further application to a designed, 120 residue monomeric protein, mROP, based on the dimeric ROP protein of Escherichia coli, predicts a left turning, four-helix bundle native state. Although the ultimate assessment of the quali...Continue Reading

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