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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2023

Predicting allosteric pockets in protein biological assemblages.

Ambuj Kumar, Burak T Kaynak, Karin S Dorman, Pemra Doruker, Robert L Jernigan

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers.

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12 citing papers in PubMed, 24 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Ambuj KumarBioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, United States.
Burak T KaynakComputational Neurobiology Laboratory, Salk Institute for Biological Studies, La Jolla, CA 92037, United States.
Karin S DormanBioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-3650-0018
Pemra DorukerDepartment of Computational and Systems Biology, School of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15232, United States.
Robert L JerniganBioinformatics and Computational Biology Program, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, United States.ORCID 0000-0003-0996-8360
Iowa State University · USSalk Institute for Biological Studies · USUniversity of Pittsburgh · US

Funding

Toward a Deeper Understanding of Allostery and Allotargeting by Computational ApproachesR01GM139297 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Ivet Bahar · 2021 to 2026
$2.8M
Novel Use of Genome Information to Understand MutationsR01HG012117 · NHGRI · IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JERNIGAN, ROBERT L, KLOCZKOWSKI, ANDRZEJ · 2021 to 2025
$2.3M
Protein Sequence MatchingR01GM127701 · NIGMS · IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY · PI JERNIGAN, ROBERT L, KLOCZKOWSKI, ANDRZEJ · 2018 to 2021
$1.4M
NHGRI NIH HHS R01 HG012117NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM127701NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM139297NIH HHS R01GM127701
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

motivationAllostery enables changes to the dynamic behavior of a protein at distant positions induced by binding. Here, we present APOP, a new allosteric pocket prediction method, which perturbs the pockets formed in the structure by stiffening pairwise interactions in the elastic network across the pocket, to emulate ligand binding. Ranking the pockets based on the shifts in the global mode frequencies, as well as their mean local hydrophobicities, leads to high prediction success when tested on a dataset of allosteric proteins, composed of both monomers and multimeric assemblages.

resultsOut of the 104 test cases, APOP predicts known allosteric pockets for 92 within the top 3 rank out of multiple pockets available in the protein. In addition, we demonstrate that APOP can also find new alternative allosteric pockets in proteins. Particularly interesting findings are the discovery of previously overlooked large pockets located in the centers of many protein biological assemblages; binding of ligands at these sites would likely be particularly effective in changing the protein's global dynamics. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: APOP is freely available as an open-source code (https://github.com/Ambuj-UF/APOP) and as a web server at https://apop.bb.iastate.edu/.

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ProteinsSoftwareAllosteric SiteBinding SitesLigandsProtein BindingProtein ConformationLigandsProteins

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PMID37115636
PMCPMC10185404
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