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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2016

Using iterative fragment assembly and progressive sequence truncation to facilitate phasing and crystal structure determination of distantly related proteins.

Yan Wang, Jouko Virtanen, Zhidong Xue, John J G Tesmer, Yang Zhang

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Fragon: rapid high-resolution structure determination from ideal protein fragments.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2018
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  4. Approaches to ab initio molecular replacement of α-helical transmembrane proteins.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2017
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5 authors at 1 institution in 2 countries.

Yan WangKey Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of the Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430074, People's Republic of China.
Jouko VirtanenDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Zhidong XueDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
John J G TesmerDepartments of Pharmacology and Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 41809, USA.
Yang ZhangDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
University of Michigan–Ann Arbor · US

Funding

Structure, function, and inhibition of G protein-coupled receptor kinasesR01HL071818 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AUSTIN · PI TESMER, JOHN · 2004 to 2023
$7.1M
I-TASSER based atomic-level protein structure predictionR01GM083107 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZHANG, YANG · 2008 to 2019
$3.5M
Structural Studies of Galphaq and Its Complexes at the Cell MembraneR01HL086865 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI TESMER, JOHN · 2007 to 2015
$3.0M
Structure and Function of the LPLA2/LCAT Acyltransferase FamilyR01HL122416 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI TESMER, JOHN · 2015 to 2018
$1.9M
Template-based docking refinement approach to protein-protein structure modelingR01GM116960 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZHANG, YANG · 2016 to 2019
$1.4M
Atomic-level, large-scale structure prediction of G protein-coupled receptorsR01GM084222 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZHANG, YANG · 2009 to 2012
$1.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL071818NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL086865NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL122416NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM083107NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084222NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM116960
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Molecular replacement (MR) often requires templates with high homology to solve the phase problem in X-ray crystallography. I-TASSER-MR has been developed to test whether the success rate for structure determination of distant-homology proteins could be improved by a combination of iterative fragmental structure-assembly simulations with progressive sequence truncation designed to trim regions with high variation. The pipeline was tested on two independent protein sets consisting of 61 proteins from CASP8 and 100 high-resolution proteins from the PDB. After excluding homologous templates, I-TASSER generated full-length models with an average TM-score of 0.773, which is 12% higher than the best threading templates. Using these as search models, I-TASSER-MR found correct MR solutions for 95 of 161 targets as judged by having a TFZ of >8 or with the final structure closer to the native than the initial search models. The success rate was 16% higher than when using the best threading templates. I-TASSER-MR was also applied to 14 protein targets from structure genomics centers. Seven of these were successfully solved by I-TASSER-MR. These results confirm that advanced structure assembly and progressive structural editing can significantly improve the success rate of MR for targets with distant homology to proteins of known structure.

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SoftwareAlgorithmsAnimalsCrystallography, X-RayDatabases, ProteinHumansProtein ConformationProteinsProteinsI-TASSERmolecular replacementprotein structure predictionthreadingX-ray crystallography

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PMID27139625
PMCPMC4931812
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