PMC

Flowchart of the modeling algorithm. Inset: Unit vector presentation of Smotifs. The largest momentum of inertia is shown in red arrow and runs for the length of the corresponding secondary structures, while the normalized unit vector has a blue cap. See also .

Structural superposition of top ranked model (in pink) with the solution structures (in blue) for (a) 2kl8 (b)1khm and (c) 2jya are shown in the center with the overall GDT_TS score indicated in brackets. The templates from which the Smotifs are sampled are shown in gray with the Smotifs themselves colored according to their secondary structures (helix=red; loop=green; strand=yellow). The PDB code, chain and residues contributing to the Smotif template, the SCOP identifier of the template (if available) and the RMSD between the template and the native Smotif are shown.

Distribution of GDT_TS scores in a test dataset as a function of secondary structure assignment accuracy from CS data. The entire dataset contains 102 proteins (black columns). This dataset is split into two, in 50 proteins at least one secondary structure is incorrectly assigned (light gray), while in 52 others, all Smotifs are captured correctly (dark gray). See also .

(a) Accuracy of identifying Smotifs from CS data using structural fingerprints. Accuracy of selection (in RMSD) is shown as a function of loop length for the helix-helix sub-type. The best available Smotifs present in the library (theoretical limit), the best Smotif selected by CS matching and the average of the top 8 Smotif selected are shown in green, blue and red, respectively. Standard deviations are shown. (b) Illustration of pre-calculated structural weights for each type of CS. For each residue type, preceding residue type, atom type the secondary structural preferences are obtained (helical, strand and coil in blue, red and green, respectively). The largest relative frequency is reduced by the second largest value for each normalized chemical shift value to obtain a relative weight (in black), which correlates with the information content carried by the normalized chemical shift value. The example shown here corresponds to the C atom of the Ala-Met dipeptide.