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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry. A2022

IDPConformerGenerator: A Flexible Software Suite for Sampling the Conformational Space of Disordered Protein States.

João M C Teixeira, Zi Hao Liu, Ashley Namini, Jie Li, Robert M Vernon, Mickaël Krzeminski, Alaa A Shamandy, Oufan Zhang, Mojtaba Haghighatlari, Lei Yu and 2 more

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry. A, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 46 papers.

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12 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

João M C TeixeiraMolecular Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.
Zi Hao LiuMolecular Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0002-8357-8507
Ashley NaminiMolecular Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.
Robert M VernonMolecular Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.
Mickaël KrzeminskiMolecular Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.
Alaa A ShamandyMolecular Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-7074-437X
Oufan Zhang
Mojtaba Haghighatlari
Teresa Head-GordonORCID 0000-0003-0025-8987
Julie D Forman-KayMolecular Medicine Program, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Ontario M5G 0A4, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-8265-972X
University of California, Berkeley · USUniversity of Toronto · CAHospital for Sick Children · CA

Funding

Calculating Ensembles of Discrete Dynamic Complexes and Condensed States of Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsR01GM127627 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY · PI Teresa L. Head-Gordon · 2018 to 2026
$2.1M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127627
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The power of structural information for informing biological mechanisms is clear for stable folded macromolecules, but similar structure-function insight is more difficult to obtain for highly dynamic systems such as intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) which must be described as structural ensembles. Here, we present IDPConformerGenerator, a flexible, modular open-source software platform for generating large and diverse ensembles of disordered protein states that builds conformers that obey geometric, steric, and other physical restraints on the input sequence. IDPConformerGenerator samples backbone phi (φ), psi (ψ), and omega (ω) torsion angles of relevant sequence fragments from loops and secondary structure elements extracted from folded protein structures in the RCSB Protein Data Bank and builds side chains from robust Monte Carlo algorithms using expanded rotamer libraries. IDPConformerGenerator has many user-defined options enabling variable fractional sampling of secondary structures, supports Bayesian models for assessing the agreement of IDP ensembles for consistency with experimental data, and introduces a machine learning approach to transform between internal and Cartesian coordinates with reduced error. IDPConformerGenerator will facilitate the characterization of disordered proteins to ultimately provide structural insights into these states that have key biological functions.

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Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsBayes TheoremDatabases, ProteinProtein ConformationProtein Structure, SecondarySoftwareIntrinsically Disordered Proteins

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PMID36030416
PMCPMC9465686
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