USES OF A MOLECULAR MECHANICS FORCE FIELD

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USES OF A MOLECULAR MECHANICS FORCE FIELD

USING THE PARAMETER SET

1) Surface exposure...

Problems...

2) Electrostatic potential...

and the spatial derivatives indicate...

Isopotential maps show where another charged molecule might interact...

Problems...

ENERGY CALCULATIONS

Example...

Such maps help explain...

Problems...

MOLECULAR MECHANICS MINIMIZATION

Minimization could be done by trial and error...

Or...

Problems...

Problems (cont.)...

Example… the Lysyl-aspartate dipeptide

Lysyl-aspartate dipeptide mimized...

REFINING STRUCTURES

Example, Homology Modeling:

The 5 X-ray Structures of Rubredoxin illustrate these ideas:

Steps of Homology Modeling

Then:

Next:

Finally...

Example, modeling one rubredoxin from another...

Once the new bond is shortened to an appropriate length…

How to evaluate the results?

Comparison of X-ray, NMR and Homology Modeled Structures

Lessons & Problems...

Author: John E. Wampler

Email: wampler@bchiris.bmb.uga.edu

Home Page: http://bmbiris.bmb.uga.edu/wampler

References:

Solvation energies from surface and volume calculations:
W. G. Richards, P. M. King, & C. A. Reynolds (1989) "Solvation effects," Protein Engineering 2, 319-327

A. A. Rashin & M. A> Bukatin (1994) "A view of thermodynamics of hydration emerging from continuum studies," Biophys. Chem. 51, 167-192

A. A. Rashin & K. Namboodiri (1987) "A simple method for the calculation of hydration enthalpies of polar molecules with arbitrary shapes," J. Phys. Chem. 91, 6003-6012.

D. J. Giesen, C. J. Cramer & D. G. Truhlar (1994) "Entropic contributions to free energies of solvation," J. Phys. Chem. 98, 4141-4147.

Physical docking:
D. J. Bacon & J. Moult (1992) "Docking by least squares fitting of molecular surface patterns," J. Mol. Biol. 225, 849-858.

R. M. Jackson & M. J. E. Sternberg (1995) "A continuum model for protein-protein interactions: applications to the docking problem," J. Mol. Biol. 250, 258-275.

F. Jiang & S. -H Kim (1991) "Soft docking: matching of molecular surface cubes," J. Mol. Biol. 219, 79-102.

B. K. Shoichet & I. D. Kuntz (1991) "Protein docking and complementarity," J. Mol. Biol. 221, 327-346.

Brownian dynamics:
S. H. Northrup (1994) "Hydrodynamic motions of large molecules," Current Opinion in Structural Biology 4, 269-274.

S. H. Northrup & H. P. Erickson (1992) "Kinetics of protein protein association explained by brownian dynamics computer- simulation," PNAS (USA) 89, 3338-3342.

Minimization methods
P. R. Bevington, "Data Reduction and Error Analysis for Physical Sciences," McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York (1969).

W. H. Press, B. P. Flannery, S. A. Teukolsky, W. T. Vetterling, "Numerical Recipes, The Art of Scientific Computing," Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (1986).

Structure refinement using molecular mechanics:
P. K. Warme, N. Go & H. A. Scheraga (1972) "Refinement of X-ray data on proteins," J. Comp. Phys. 9, 303-317.

A. T. Brunger, M. Karplus & G. A. Petsko (1989) "Crystallographic refinement by simulated annealing," Acta Cryst. A45, 50-61.

M. Levitt & S. Lifson (1969) "Refinement of protein conformations using a macromolecular energy minimization procedure," J. Mol. Biol. 46, 269-279.

Homology modeling using molecular mechanics:
S. H. Bryant & C. E. Lawrence (1993) "An empirical energy function for threading protein sequence through the folding motif," Proteins 16, 92-112.

N. Srinivasan & T. L. Blundell (1993) "An evaluation of the performance of an automated procedure for comparative modelling of protein tertiary structure," Protein Engineering 6, 501-512.

D. E. Stewart, P. K. Weiner & J. E. Wampler (1987) "Prediction of the structure of proteins using related structures, energy minimization and computer graphics," J. Mol. Graphics 5, 133-140.