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Self-consistently optimized energy functions for protein structure prediction by molecular dynamics.

ABSTRACT: The protein energy landscape theory is used to obtain optimal energy functions for protein structure prediction via simulated annealing. The analysis here takes advantage of a more complete statistical characterization of the protein energy landscape and thereby improves on previous approximations. This schema partially takes into account correlations in the energy landscape. It also incorporates the relationships between folding dynamics and characteristic energy scales that control the collapse of the proteins and modulate rigidity of short-range interactions. Simulated annealing for the optimal energy functions, which are associative memory hamiltonians using a database of folding patterns, generally leads to quantitatively correct structures. In some cases the algorithm achieves "creativity," i.e., structures result that are better than any homolog in the database.

SUBMITTER: Koretke KK

PROVIDER: S-EPMC19672 | biostudies-literature | 1998 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Self-consistently optimized energy functions for protein structure prediction by molecular dynamics.

Koretke K K KK Luthey-Schulten Z Z Wolynes P G PG

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 19980301 6

The protein energy landscape theory is used to obtain optimal energy functions for protein structure prediction via simulated annealing. The analysis here takes advantage of a more complete statistical characterization of the protein energy landscape and thereby improves on previous approximations. This schema partially takes into account correlations in the energy landscape. It also incorporates the relationships between folding dynamics and characteristic energy scales that control the collaps ...[more]

PMID: 9501193

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Project description:BackgroundThe ab initio approaches to protein structure prediction usually employ the Monte Carlo technique to search the structural conformation that has the lowest energy. However, the widely-used energy functions are usually ineffective for conformation search. How to construct an effective energy function remains a challenging task.ResultsHere, we present a framework to construct effective energy functions for protein structure prediction. Unlike existing energy functions only requiring the native structure to be the lowest one, we attempt to maximize the attraction-basin where the native structure lies in the energy landscape. The underlying rationale is that each energy function determines a specific energy landscape together with a native attraction-basin, and the larger the attraction-basin is, the more likely for the Monte Carlo search procedure to find the native structure. Following this rationale, we constructed effective energy functions as follows: i) To explore the native attraction-basin determined by a certain energy function, we performed reverse Monte Carlo sampling starting from the native structure, identifying the structural conformations on the edge of attraction-basin. ii) To broaden the native attraction-basin, we smoothened the edge points of attraction-basin through tuning weights of energy terms, thus acquiring an improved energy function. Our framework alternates the broadening attraction-basin and reverse sampling steps (thus called BARS) until the native attraction-basin is sufficiently large. We present extensive experimental results to show that using the BARS framework, the constructed energy functions could greatly facilitate protein structure prediction in improving the quality of predicted structures and speeding up conformation search.ConclusionUsing the BARS framework, we constructed effective energy functions for protein structure prediction, which could improve the quality of predicted structures and speed up conformation search as well.

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Self-consistently optimized energy functions for protein structure prediction by molecular dynamics.

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Self-consistently optimized energy functions for protein structure prediction by molecular dynamics.

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