| Literature DB >> 12571353 |
Marian Nanias1, Maurizio Chinchio, Jarosław Pillardy, Daniel R Ripoll, Harold A Scheraga.
Abstract
An efficient method has been developed for packing alpha-helices in proteins. It treats alpha-helices as rigid bodies and uses a simplified Lennard-Jones potential with Miyazawa-Jernigan contact-energy parameters to describe the interactions between the alpha-helical elements in this coarse-grained system. Global conformational searches to generate packing arrangements rapidly are carried out with a Monte Carlo-with-minimization type of approach. The results for 42 proteins show that the approach reproduces native-like folds of alpha-helical proteins as low-energy local minima of this highly simplified potential function.Mesh:
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Year: 2003 PMID: 12571353 PMCID: PMC149897 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.252760199
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ISSN: 0027-8424 Impact factor: 11.205