Author:
O’Donnell Timothée,Cazals Frédéric
Abstract
AbstractFlexible loops are paramount to protein functions, with action modes ranging from localized dynamics contributing to the free energy of the system, to large amplitude conformational changes accounting for the repositioning whole secondary structure elements or protein domains. However, generating diverse and low energy loops remains a difficult problem.This work introduces a novel paradigm to sample loop conformations, in the spirit of the Hit-and- Run (HAR) Markov chain Monte Carlo technique. The algorithm uses a decomposition of the loop into tripeptides, and a novel characterization of necessary conditions for Tripeptide Loop Closure to admit solutions. Denotingmthe number of tripeptides, the algorithm works in an angular space of dimension 12m. In this space, the hyper-surfaces associated with the aforementioned necessary conditions are used to run a HAR-like sampling technique.On classical loop cases up to 15 amino acids, our parameter free method compares favorably to previous work, generating more diverse conformational ensembles. We also report experiments on a 30 amino acids long loop, a size not processed in any previous work.
Publisher
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
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