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ArticleJournal of molecular modeling2009

Solvent accessible surface area approximations for rapid and accurate protein structure prediction.

Elizabeth Durham, Brent Dorr, Nils Woetzel, René Staritzbichler, Jens Meiler

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Article in Journal of molecular modeling, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 179 papers.

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179citing papers in PubMed
2.2field-weighted citation impact, top 13% of its field
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179 citing papers in PubMed, 442 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Elizabeth DurhamDepartment of Chemistry, Center for Structural Biology, Vanderbilt University, 465 21st Ave South, Nashville, TN 37232-8725, USA.
Brent Dorr
Nils Woetzel
René Staritzbichler
Jens Meiler
Vanderbilt University · US

Funding

Vanderbilt Biomedical Informatics Training ProgramT15LM007450 · NLM · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI Jessica S. Ancker, Bradley A. Malin · 2002 to 2026
$19.7M
Membrane Protein Structure Elucidation from sparse NMR data (KAMP)R01GM080403 · NIGMS · VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY · PI MEILER, JENS · 2007 to 2019
$3.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM080403NIGMS NIH HHS R01-GM080403NLM NIH HHS 2-T15 LM07450-06NLM NIH HHS T15 LM007450
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The burial of hydrophobic amino acids in the protein core is a driving force in protein folding. The extent to which an amino acid interacts with the solvent and the protein core is naturally proportional to the surface area exposed to these environments. However, an accurate calculation of the solvent-accessible surface area (SASA), a geometric measure of this exposure, is numerically demanding as it is not pair-wise decomposable. Furthermore, it depends on a full-atom representation of the molecule. This manuscript introduces a series of four SASA approximations of increasing computational complexity and accuracy as well as knowledge-based environment free energy potentials based on these SASA approximations. Their ability to distinguish correctly from incorrectly folded protein models is assessed to balance speed and accuracy for protein structure prediction. We find the newly developed "Neighbor Vector" algorithm provides the most optimal balance of accurate yet rapid exposure measures.

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Computer SimulationModels, ChemicalProtein ConformationAlgorithmsAmino AcidsHydrophobic and Hydrophilic InteractionsModels, MolecularProteinsSolventsSurface PropertiesAmino AcidsProteinsSolvents

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PMID19234730
PMCPMC2712621
OpenAlexW2005109042

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