An orientation-dependent hydrogen bonding potential improves prediction of specificity and structure for proteins and protein-protein complexes.

Autor: Kortemme T; Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Department of Biochemistry, J-567 Health Sciences, Box 357350, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7350, USA., Morozov AV, Baker D
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of molecular biology [J Mol Biol] 2003 Feb 28; Vol. 326 (4), pp. 1239-59.
DOI: 10.1016/s0022-2836(03)00021-4
Abstrakt: Hydrogen bonding is a key contributor to the specificity of intramolecular and intermolecular interactions in biological systems. Here, we develop an orientation-dependent hydrogen bonding potential based on the geometric characteristics of hydrogen bonds in high-resolution protein crystal structures, and evaluate it using four tests related to the prediction and design of protein structures and protein-protein complexes. The new potential is superior to the widely used Coulomb model of hydrogen bonding in prediction of the sequences of proteins and protein-protein interfaces from their structures, and improves discrimination of correctly docked protein-protein complexes from large sets of alternative structures.
Databáze: MEDLINE