| Literature DB >> 21760758 |
Mingyang Lu1, Billy Poon, Jianpeng Ma.
Abstract
In this paper, we report a new method for coarse-grained elastic normal-mode analysis. The purpose is to overcome a long-standing problem in the conventional analysis called the tip effect that makes the motional patterns (eigenvectors) of some low-frequency modes irrational. The new method retains the merits of a conventional method such as not requiring lengthy initial energy minimization, which always distorts structures, and also delivers substantially more accurate low-frequency modes with no tip effect for proteins of any size. This improvement of modes is crucial for certain types of applications such as structural refinement or normal-mode-based sampling.Year: 2006 PMID: 21760758 PMCID: PMC3133770 DOI: 10.1021/ct050307u
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Chem Theory Comput ISSN: 1549-9618 Impact factor: 6.006