Model building of disulfide bonds in proteins with known three-dimensional structure |
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Authors: | Hazes Bart; Dijkstra Bauke W |
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Affiliation: | Laboratory of Chemical Physics, University of Groningen Nijenborgh 16, 9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands |
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Abstract: | As an aid in the selection of sites in a protein where a disulfidebond might be engineered, a computer program has been developed.The algorithm starts with the generation of Cß positionsfrom the N, C and C atom coordinates available from a three-dimensionalmodel. A first set of residue pairs that might form a disulfidebond is selected on the basis of CßCßdistances between residues. Then, for each residue in this set,S positions are generated, which satisfy the requirement that,with ideal values for the CCß and CßSbond lengths and for the bond angle at Cß, the distancebetween S of residue 1 and Cß of residue 2 in a pair(determined by the bond angle at S2) is at, or very close toits ideal value. Usually two acceptable S positions are foundfor each half cystine, resulting in up to four different conformationsfor the disulfide bond. Finally, these conformations are subjectedto an energy minimization procedure to remove large deviationsfrom ideal geometry and their final energies are calculated.User input determines which final conformations are energeticallyacceptable. These conformations are written to a file to allowfurther analysis and e.g. inspection on a computer graphicsdevice. |
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Keywords: | computer modelling/ disulfide bonds/ model building/ prediction/ SS-bonds |
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