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ArticlePLoS computational biology2015

An Integrated Framework Advancing Membrane Protein Modeling and Design.

Rebecca F Alford, Julia Koehler Leman, Brian D Weitzner, Amanda M Duran, Drew C Tilley, Assaf Elazar, Jeffrey J Gray

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Article in PLoS computational biology, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 95 papers.

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95 citing papers in PubMed, 183 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 5 institutions in 2 countries.

Rebecca F AlfordDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America; Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States of America.
Julia Koehler LemanDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Brian D WeitznerDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Amanda M DuranCenter for Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America.
Drew C TilleyDepartment of Physiology and Membrane Biology, University of California, Davis, Davis, California, United States of America.
Assaf ElazarDepartment of Biological Chemistry, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
Jeffrey J GrayDepartment of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America.
Johns Hopkins University · USCarnegie Mellon University · USUniversity of California, Davis · USVanderbilt University · USWeizmann Institute of Science · IL

Funding

Prediction of the Structure of Therapeutic Antibodies with their AntigensR01GM078221 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI GRAY, JEFFREY J · 2006 to 2020
$4.0M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM-078221NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM078221
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Membrane proteins are critical functional molecules in the human body, constituting more than 30% of open reading frames in the human genome. Unfortunately, a myriad of difficulties in overexpression and reconstitution into membrane mimetics severely limit our ability to determine their structures. Computational tools are therefore instrumental to membrane protein structure prediction, consequently increasing our understanding of membrane protein function and their role in disease. Here, we describe a general framework facilitating membrane protein modeling and design that combines the scientific principles for membrane protein modeling with the flexible software architecture of Rosetta3. This new framework, called RosettaMP, provides a general membrane representation that interfaces with scoring, conformational sampling, and mutation routines that can be easily combined to create new protocols. To demonstrate the capabilities of this implementation, we developed four proof-of-concept applications for (1) prediction of free energy changes upon mutation; (2) high-resolution structural refinement; (3) protein-protein docking; and (4) assembly of symmetric protein complexes, all in the membrane environment. Preliminary data show that these algorithms can produce meaningful scores and structures. The data also suggest needed improvements to both sampling routines and score functions. Importantly, the applications collectively demonstrate the potential of combining the flexible nature of RosettaMP with the power of Rosetta algorithms to facilitate membrane protein modeling and design.

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Models, MolecularComputational BiologyMembrane ProteinsProtein ConformationProtein EngineeringMembrane Proteins

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PMID26325167
PMCPMC4556676
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