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ArticleJournal of chemical information and modeling2022

Predicting Protein-Peptide Complex Structures by Accounting for Peptide Flexibility and the Physicochemical Environment.

Xianjin Xu, Xiaoqin Zou

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Article in Journal of chemical information and modeling, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.

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21citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 7% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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21 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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  5. Strategic Template Filtering Accelerates Fragment-Based Peptide Docking.Journal of chemical information and modeling · 2026
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  8. Peptide-protein docking: from physics-based models to generative intelligence.Chemical communications (Cambridge, England) · 2026
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  12. Flexible Docking of Cyclic Peptides to Proteins Using CABS-dock.Journal of chemical theory and computation · 2025
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  20. Matching protein surface structural patches for high-resolution blind peptide docking.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Xianjin XuDalton Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Data Science and Informatics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-5011-2997
Xiaoqin ZouDalton Cardiovascular Research Center, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Biochemistry, Institute for Data Science and Informatics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0637-8648
University of Missouri · US

Funding

MANIPULATING IKS AS A THERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIASR01HL126774 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI CUI, JIANMIN · 2015 to 2018
$3.1M
Structure prediction and in silico screening of protein-peptide interactionsR35GM136409 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI XIAOQIN ZOU · 2020 to 2026
$2.9M
Mechanism of BK Channel GatingR01HL142301 · NHLBI · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SILVA, JONATHAN R · 2018 to 2021
$2.9M
Database and software development for protein-nucleic acid structure predicationR01GM109980 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI ZOU, XIAOQIN · 2015 to 2019
$1.5M
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL126774NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL142301NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM109980NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136409
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Predicting protein-peptide complex structures is crucial to the understanding of a vast variety of peptide-mediated cellular processes and to peptide-based drug development. Peptide flexibility and binding mode ranking are the two major challenges for protein-peptide complex structure prediction. Peptides are highly flexible molecules, and therefore, brute-force modeling of peptide conformations of interest in protein-peptide docking is beyond current computing power. Inspired by the fact that the protein-peptide binding process is like protein folding, we developed a novel strategy, named MDockPeP2, which tries to address these challenges using physicochemical information embedded in abundant monomeric proteins with an exhaustive search strategy, in combination with an integrated global search and a local flexible minimization method. Only the peptide sequence and the protein crystal structure are required. The method was systemically assessed using a newly constructed structural database of 89 nonredundant protein-peptide complexes with the peptide sequence length ranging from 5 to 29 in which about half of the peptides are longer than 15 residues. MDockPeP2 yielded a total success rate of 58.4% (70.8, 79.8%) for the bound docking (i.e., with the bound receptor and fully flexible peptides) and 19.0% (44.8, 70.7%) for the challenging unbound docking when top 10 (100, 1000) models were considered for each prediction. MDockPeP2 achieved significantly higher success rates on two other datasets, peptiDB and LEADS-PEP, which contain only short- and medium-size peptides (≤ 15 residues). For peptiDB, our method obtained a success rate of 62.0% for the bound docking and 35.9% for the unbound docking when the top 10 models were considered. For LEADS-PEP, MDockPeP2 achieved a success rate of 69.8% when the top 10 models were considered. The program is available at https://zougrouptoolkit.missouri.edu/mdockpep2/download.html.

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PeptidesProteinsBinding SitesMolecular Docking SimulationProtein BindingProtein ConformationPeptidesProteins

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PMID34931833
PMCPMC9020583
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