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Title: Improved Modeling of Peptide-Protein Binding Through Global Docking and Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Abstract

We find that peptides mediate up to 40% of known protein-protein interactions in higher eukaryotes and play a key role in cellular signaling, protein trafficking, immunology, and oncology. However, it is challenging to predict peptide-protein binding with conventional computational modeling approaches, due to slow dynamics and high peptide flexibility. Here, we present a prototype of the approach which combines global peptide docking using ClusPro PeptiDock and all-atom enhanced simulations using Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD). For three distinct model peptides, the lowest backbone root-mean-square deviations (RMSDs) of their bound conformations relative to X-ray structures obtained from PeptiDock were 3.3–4.8 Å, being medium quality predictions according to the Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions (CAPRI) criteria. GaMD simulations refined the peptide-protein complex structures with significantly reduced peptide backbone RMSDs of 0.6–2.7 Å, yielding two high quality (sub-angstrom) and one medium quality models. Furthermore, the GaMD simulations identified important low-energy conformational states and revealed the mechanism of peptide binding to the target proteins. Therefore, PeptiDock+GaMD is a promising approach for exploring peptide-protein interactions.

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [2];  [1]
  1. Univ. of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (United States)
  2. Stony Brook Univ., NY (United States). Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE Office of Science (SC)
OSTI Identifier:
1577835
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-05CH11231
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2296-889X
Publisher:
Frontiers Media SA
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Citation Formats

Wang, Jinan, Alekseenko, Andrey, Kozakov, Dima, and Miao, Yinglong. Improved Modeling of Peptide-Protein Binding Through Global Docking and Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations. United States: N. p., 2019. Web. doi:10.3389/fmolb.2019.00112.
Wang, Jinan, Alekseenko, Andrey, Kozakov, Dima, & Miao, Yinglong. Improved Modeling of Peptide-Protein Binding Through Global Docking and Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations. United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2019.00112
Wang, Jinan, Alekseenko, Andrey, Kozakov, Dima, and Miao, Yinglong. Wed . "Improved Modeling of Peptide-Protein Binding Through Global Docking and Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations". United States. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmolb.2019.00112. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1577835.
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title = {Improved Modeling of Peptide-Protein Binding Through Global Docking and Accelerated Molecular Dynamics Simulations},
author = {Wang, Jinan and Alekseenko, Andrey and Kozakov, Dima and Miao, Yinglong},
abstractNote = {We find that peptides mediate up to 40% of known protein-protein interactions in higher eukaryotes and play a key role in cellular signaling, protein trafficking, immunology, and oncology. However, it is challenging to predict peptide-protein binding with conventional computational modeling approaches, due to slow dynamics and high peptide flexibility. Here, we present a prototype of the approach which combines global peptide docking using ClusPro PeptiDock and all-atom enhanced simulations using Gaussian accelerated molecular dynamics (GaMD). For three distinct model peptides, the lowest backbone root-mean-square deviations (RMSDs) of their bound conformations relative to X-ray structures obtained from PeptiDock were 3.3–4.8 Å, being medium quality predictions according to the Critical Assessment of PRediction of Interactions (CAPRI) criteria. GaMD simulations refined the peptide-protein complex structures with significantly reduced peptide backbone RMSDs of 0.6–2.7 Å, yielding two high quality (sub-angstrom) and one medium quality models. Furthermore, the GaMD simulations identified important low-energy conformational states and revealed the mechanism of peptide binding to the target proteins. Therefore, PeptiDock+GaMD is a promising approach for exploring peptide-protein interactions.},
doi = {10.3389/fmolb.2019.00112},
journal = {Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Wed Oct 30 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}

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