Biologically enhanced sampling geometric docking and backbone flexibility treatment with multiconformational superposition

Proteins. 2005 Aug 1;60(2):319-23. doi: 10.1002/prot.20577.

Abstract

An efficient biologically enhanced sampling geometric docking method is presented based on the FTDock algorithm to predict the protein-protein binding modes. The active site data from different sources, such as biochemical and biophysical experiments or theoretical analyses of sequence data, can be incorporated in the rotation-translation scan. When discretizing a protein onto a 3-dimensional (3D) grid, a zero value is given to grid points outside a sphere centered on the geometric center of specified residues. In this way, docking solutions are biased toward modes where the interface region is inside the sphere. We also adopt a multiconformational superposition scheme to represent backbone flexibility in the proteins. When these procedures were applied to the targets of CAPRI, a larger number of hits and smaller ligand root-mean-square deviations (RMSDs) were obtained at the conformational search stage in all cases, and especially Target 19. With Target 18, only 1 near-native structure was retained by the biologically enhanced sampling geometric docking method, but this number increased to 53 and the least ligand RMSD decreased from 8.1 A to 2.9 A after performing multiconformational superposition. These results were obtained after the CAPRI prediction deadlines.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Bacterial Proteins / chemistry
  • Binding Sites
  • Computational Biology / methods*
  • Computer Simulation
  • Databases, Protein
  • Ligands
  • Macromolecular Substances
  • Models, Molecular
  • Models, Statistical
  • Molecular Conformation
  • Protein Binding*
  • Protein Conformation
  • Protein Folding
  • Protein Interaction Mapping / methods*
  • Protein Structure, Tertiary
  • Proteomics / methods*
  • Reproducibility of Results
  • Sequence Alignment
  • Software
  • Static Electricity
  • Structural Homology, Protein

Substances

  • Bacterial Proteins
  • Ligands
  • Macromolecular Substances