An efficient conformational sampling method for homology modeling

被引:16
作者
Han, Rongsheng [1 ]
Leo-Macias, Alejandra [1 ]
Zerbino, Daniel [1 ]
Bastolla, Ugo [1 ]
Contreras-Moreira, Bruno [2 ]
Ortiz, Angel R. [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Autonoma Madrid, CSIC, Ctr Biol Mol Severo Ochoa, Bioinformat Unit, Madrid, Spain
[2] Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Ctr Ciencias Genom, Programa Genom Computat, Mexico City 04510, DF, Mexico
关键词
comparative modeling; conformational search; multiple structure analysis; principal components analysis; normal mode analysis; Replica Exchange Monte Carlo;
D O I
10.1002/prot.21672
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The structural refinement of protein models is a challenging problem in protein structure prediction (Moult et al., Proteins 2003;53(Suppl 6):334-339). Most attempts to refine comparative models lead to degradation rather than improvement in model quality, so most current comparative modeling procedures omit the refinement step. However, it has been shown that even in the absence of alignment errors and using optimal templates, methods based on a single template have intrinsic limitations, and that refinement is needed to improve model accuracy. It is thought that failure of current methods originates on one hand from the inaccuracy of the effective free energy functions adopted, which do not represent properly the energetic balance in the native state, and on the other hand from the difficulty to sample the high dimensional and rugged free energy landscape of protein folding, in the search for the global minimum. Here, we address this second issue. We define the evolutionary and vibrational armonics subspace (EVA), a reduced sampling subspace that consists of a combination of evolutionarily favored directions, defined by the principal components of the structural variation within a homologous family, plus topologically favored directions, derived from the low frequency normal modes of the vibrational dynamics, up to 50 dimensions. This subspace is accurate enough so that the cores of most proteins can be represented within 1 angstrom accuracy, and reduced enough so that Replica Exchange Monte Carlo (Hukushima and Nemoto, J Phys Soc Jpn 1996;65:1604-1608, Hukushima et al., Int J Mod Phys C: Phys Comput 1996;7:337-344, Mitsutake et al., J Chem Phys 2003;118:6664-6675; Mitsutake et al., J Chem Phys 2003;118:6676-6688) (REMC) can be applied. REMC is one of the best sampling methods currently available, but its applicability is restricted to spaces of small dimensionality. We show that the combination of the EVA subspace and REMC can essentially solve the optimization problem for backbone atoms in the reduced sampling subspace, even for rather rugged free energy landscapes. Applications and limitations of this methodology are finally discussed.
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页码:175 / 188
页数:14
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