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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology2017

Approaches to ab initio molecular replacement of α-helical transmembrane proteins.

Jens M H Thomas, Felix Simkovic, Ronan Keegan, Olga Mayans, Chengxin Zhang, Yang Zhang, Daniel J Rigden

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology, 2017. 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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  4. Helical ensembles outperform ideal helices in molecular replacement.Acta crystallographica. Section D, Structural biology · 2020
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Jens M H ThomasInstitute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, England.ORCID 0000-0003-0277-8505
Felix SimkovicInstitute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, England.ORCID 0000-0003-3430-6828
Ronan KeeganResearch Complex at Harwell, STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Didcot OX11 0FA, England.
Olga MayansFachbereich Biologie, Universität Konstanz, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany.
Chengxin ZhangDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Michigan, 100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2218, USA.
Yang ZhangDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Department of Biological Chemistry, Medical School, University of Michigan, 100 Washtenaw Avenue, Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2218, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-2739-1916
Daniel J RigdenInstitute of Integrative Biology, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZB, England.ORCID 0000-0002-7565-8937

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Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/H013652/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L009544/1
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Abstract

α-Helical transmembrane proteins are a ubiquitous and important class of proteins, but present difficulties for crystallographic structure solution. Here, the effectiveness of the AMPLE molecular replacement pipeline in solving α-helical transmembrane-protein structures is assessed using a small library of eight ideal helices, as well as search models derived from ab initio models generated both with and without evolutionary contact information. The ideal helices prove to be surprisingly effective at solving higher resolution structures, but ab initio-derived search models are able to solve structures that could not be solved with the ideal helices. The addition of evolutionary contact information results in a marked improvement in the modelling and makes additional solutions possible.

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Protein Conformation, alpha-HelicalAlgorithmsCell MembraneComputer SimulationCrystallography, X-RayHumansMembrane ProteinsModels, MolecularSoftwareMembrane Proteinsab initio modellingab initio phasingpredicted contactstransmembrane proteins

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