Abstract
We extended a mean-field model to proteins with all atomic detail. The all-atom mean-field model was used to calculate the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of a three-helix bundle fragment of Staphylococcal protein A (Protein Data Bank [PDB] ID 1BDD) and alpha-spectrin SH3 domain protein (PDB ID 1SHG). We show that a model with all-atomic detail provides a significantly more accurate prediction of flexibility of residues in proteins than does a coarse-grained residue-level model. The accuracy of flexibility prediction is further confirmed by application of the method to 18 additional proteins with the largest size of 224 residues.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1772-1777 |
Number of pages | 6 |
Journal | Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society |
Volume | 14 |
Issue number | 7 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2005 |
Externally published | Yes |
Keywords
- protein flexibility
- mean-field statistical theory
- protein thermodynamics
- all-atom model