Data di Pubblicazione:
2001
Citazione:
Reading the three--dimensional structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence / R. A. Broglia, G. Tiana. - In: PROTEINS. - ISSN 0887-3585. - 45:4(2001), pp. 421-427.
Abstract:
While all the information required for the folding of a protein is contained in its amino acid sequence, one has not yet learned how to extract this information to predict the detailed, biological active, three-dimensional structure of a protein whose sequence is known. Using insight obtained from lattice model simulations of the folding of small proteins (fewer than 100 residues), in particular of the fact that this phenomenon is essentially controlled by conserved contacts (Mirny et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1995;92:1282) among (few) strongly interacting ("hot") amino acids (Tiana et al., J Chem Phys 1998;108:757-761), which also stabilize local elementary structures formed early in the folding process and leading to the (postcritical) folding core when they assemble together (Broglia et al., Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 1998;95:12930, Broglia & Tiana, J Chem Phys 2001;114:7267), we have worked out a successful strategy for reading the three-dimensional structure of lattice model-designed proteins from the knowledge of only their amino acid sequence and of the contact energies among the amino acids.
Tipologia IRIS:
01 - Articolo su periodico
Elenco autori:
R. A. Broglia, G. Tiana
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