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ArticleProtein science : a publication of the Protein Society2018

Homology-based hydrogen bond information improves crystallographic structures in the PDB.

Bart van Beusekom, Wouter G Touw, Mahidhar Tatineni, Sandeep Somani, Gunaretnam Rajagopal, Jinquan Luo, Gary L Gilliland, Anastassis Perrakis, Robbie P Joosten

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Bart van BeusekomDepartment of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, The Netherlands.
Wouter G TouwDepartment of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, The Netherlands.
Mahidhar TatineniSan Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, California, 92093-0505.
Sandeep SomaniDiscovery Sciences, Janssen R&D LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania.
Gunaretnam RajagopalDiscovery Sciences, Janssen R&D LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania.
Jinquan LuoJanssen BioTherapeutics, Janssen R&D LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania.
Gary L GillilandJanssen BioTherapeutics, Janssen R&D LLC, Spring House, Pennsylvania.
Anastassis PerrakisDepartment of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-1151-6227
Robbie P JoostenDepartment of Biochemistry, Netherlands Cancer Institute, Plesmanlaan 121, Amsterdam, 1066 CX, The Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0002-2323-2686

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Abstract

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the global archive for structural information on macromolecules, and a popular resource for researchers, teachers, and students, amassing more than one million unique users each year. Crystallographic structure models in the PDB (more than 100,000 entries) are optimized against the crystal diffraction data and geometrical restraints. This process of crystallographic refinement typically ignored hydrogen bond (H-bond) distances as a source of information. However, H-bond restraints can improve structures at low resolution where diffraction data are limited. To improve low-resolution structure refinement, we present methods for deriving H-bond information either globally from well-refined high-resolution structures from the PDB-REDO databank, or specifically from on-the-fly constructed sets of homologous high-resolution structures. Refinement incorporating HOmology DErived Restraints (HODER), improves geometrical quality and the fit to the diffraction data for many low-resolution structures. To make these improvements readily available to the general public, we applied our new algorithms to all crystallographic structures in the PDB: using massively parallel computing, we constructed a new instance of the PDB-REDO databank (https://pdb-redo.eu). This resource is useful for researchers to gain insight on individual structures, on specific protein families (as we demonstrate with examples), and on general features of protein structure using data mining approaches on a uniformly treated dataset.

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AlgorithmsComputational BiologyCrystallography, X-RayDatabases, ProteinData MiningHydrogen BondingModels, MolecularProtein ConformationProteinsProteinsdatabankhigh-throughput computinghomologyhydrogen bondsPDBPDB-REDOrefinementrestraintsX-ray crystallography

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PMID29168245
PMCPMC5818736

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