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ArticlePLoS computational biology2014

Fast protein loop sampling and structure prediction using distance-guided sequential chain-growth Monte Carlo method.

Ke Tang, Jinfeng Zhang, Jie Liang

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Simulation of pH-Dependent, Loop-Based Membrane Protein Gating Using Pretzel.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2026
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  7. Simulation of pH-Dependent, Loop-Based Membrane Protein Gating Using Pretzel.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2021
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  8. Current approaches to flexible loop modeling.Current research in structural biology · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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3 authors.

Ke TangDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.
Jinfeng ZhangDepartment of Statistics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America.
Jie LiangDepartment of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America.

Funding

Chicago Tri-Institutional Center for Chemical Methods and Library DevelopmentP50GM086145 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI KOZMIN, SERGEY A · 2008 to 2012
$9.9M
Computational assembly of beta-barrel membrane proteinsR01GM079804 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO · PI LIANG, JIE · 2007 to 2016
$2.8M
Elastic Shape Analysis for Protein Structure Alignment-New Advancement in an OldR21GM101552 · NIGMS · FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI ZHANG, JINFENG · 2012 to 2013
$375k
NIGMS NIH HHS GM086145NIGMS NIH HHS NIH 1R21GM101552NIGMS NIH HHS NIH GM079804NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM086145NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM079804NIGMS NIH HHS R21 GM101552
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Loops in proteins are flexible regions connecting regular secondary structures. They are often involved in protein functions through interacting with other molecules. The irregularity and flexibility of loops make their structures difficult to determine experimentally and challenging to model computationally. Conformation sampling and energy evaluation are the two key components in loop modeling. We have developed a new method for loop conformation sampling and prediction based on a chain growth sequential Monte Carlo sampling strategy, called Distance-guided Sequential chain-Growth Monte Carlo (DISGRO). With an energy function designed specifically for loops, our method can efficiently generate high quality loop conformations with low energy that are enriched with near-native loop structures. The average minimum global backbone RMSD for 1,000 conformations of 12-residue loops is 1:53 A° , with a lowest energy RMSD of 2:99 A° , and an average ensembleRMSD of 5:23 A° . A novel geometric criterion is applied to speed up calculations. The computational cost of generating 1,000 conformations for each of the x loops in a benchmark dataset is only about 10 cpu minutes for 12-residue loops, compared to ca 180 cpu minutes using the FALCm method. Test results on benchmark datasets show that DISGRO performs comparably or better than previous successful methods, while requiring far less computing time. DISGRO is especially effective in modeling longer loops (10-17 residues).

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Monte Carlo MethodProtein ConformationProteinsProteins

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PMID24763317
PMCPMC3998890

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