Degiacomi, M.T. and Dal Peraro, M. (2013) 'Macromolecular symmetric assembly prediction using swarm intelligence dynamic modeling.', Structure., 21 (7). pp. 1097-1106.
Abstract
Proteins often assemble in multimeric complexes to perform a specific biologic function. However, trapping these high-order conformations is difficult experimentally. Therefore, predicting how proteins assemble using in silico techniques can be of great help. The size of the associated conformational space and the fact that proteins are intrinsically flexible structures make this optimization problem extremely challenging. Nonetheless, known experimental spatial restraints can guide the search process, contributing to model biologically relevant states. We present here a swarm intelligence optimization protocol able to predict the arrangement of protein symmetric assemblies by exploiting a limited amount of experimental restraints and steric interactions. Importantly, within this scheme the native flexibility of each protein subunit is taken into account as extracted from molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. We show that this is a key ingredient for the prediction of biologically functional assemblies when, upon oligomerization, subunits explore activated states undergoing significant conformational changes.
Item Type: | Article |
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Full text: | (AM) Accepted Manuscript Available under License - Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial No Derivatives. Download PDF (12253Kb) |
Status: | Peer-reviewed |
Publisher Web site: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2013.05.014 |
Publisher statement: | © 2013 This manuscript version is made available under the CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ |
Date accepted: | 22 May 2013 |
Date deposited: | 08 August 2017 |
Date of first online publication: | 27 June 2013 |
Date first made open access: | No date available |
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