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Local Normal Mode Analysis for Fast Loop Conformational Sampling

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José Ramón López‐Blanco
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Yves Dehouck
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Ugo Bastolla
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Pablo Chacón *
DOI:10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00870delete
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We propose and validate a novel method to efficiently explore local protein loop conformations based on a new formalism for constrained normal mode analysis (NMA) in internal coordinates. The manifold of possible loop configurations imposed by the position and orientation of the fixed loop ends is reduced to an orthogonal set of motions (or modes) encoding concerted rotations of all the backbone dihedral angles. We validate the sampling power on a set of protein loops with highly variable experimental structures and demonstrate that our approach can efficiently explore the conformational space of closed loops. We also show an acceptable resemblance of the ensembles around equilibrium conformations generated by long molecular simulations and constrained NMA on a set of exposed and diverse loops. In comparison with other methods, the main advantage is the lack of restrictions on the number of dihedrals that can be altered simultaneously. Furthermore, the method is computationally efficient since it only requires the diagonalization of a tiny matrix, and the modes of motions are energetically contextualized by the elastic network model, which includes both the loop and the neighboring residues.
Keywords:
COORDINATE DESCENT
ATOMIC STRUCTURES
EFFICIENT
FLEXIBILITY
PREDICTION
PROTEINS
DYNAMICS
REGIONS
CLOSURE
MAPS
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Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling
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