Directional adjacency-score function for protein fold recognition

Autor: Kwanghoon Chung, Iksoo Chang, Mookyung Cheon, Suhkmann Kim, Muyoung Heo
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Interdisciplinary Bio Central. 1:1-6
ISSN: 2005-8543
DOI: 10.4051/ibc.2009.2.0008
Popis: It is a challenge to design a protein score function which stabilizes the native structures of many proteins simultaneously. The coarse-grained description of proteins to construct the pairwise-contact score function usually ignores the backbone directionality of protein structures. We propose a new two-body score function which stabilizes all native states of 1,006 proteins simultaneously. This two-body score function differs from the usual pairwise-contact functions in that it considers two adjacent amino acids at two ends of each peptide bond with the backbone directionality from the N-terminal to the C-terminal. The score is a corresponding propensity for a directional alignment of two adjacent amino acids with their local environments.
Databáze: OpenAIRE