ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF THE PACKING OF ALPHA-HELICES AGAINST A BETA-SHEET IN THE TERTIARY STRUCTURE OF GLOBULAR-PROTEINS
ANALYSIS AND PREDICTION OF THE PACKING OF ALPHA-HELICES AGAINST A BETA-SHEET IN THE TERTIARY STRUCTURE OF GLOBULAR-PROTEINS
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DOI:
10.1016/0022-2836(82)90144-9
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发表时间:
1982-01-01
影响因子:
5.6
通讯作者:
TAYLOR, WR
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作者:
COHEN, FE;STERNBERG, MJE;TAYLOR, WR
The packing of .alpha.-helices and .beta.-sheets in 6 .alpha./.beta. proteins (e.g. flavodoxin) was analyzed. The results provide the basis for a computer algorithm to predict the tertiary structure of an .alpha..beta. protein from its amino acid sequence and actual assignment of secondary structure. The packing of an individual .alpha.-helix against a .beta.-sheet generally involves 2 adjacent .+-. 4 rows of non-polar residues on the .alpha.-helix at the positions i, i + 4, i + 8, i + 1, i + 5, i + 9. The pattern of interacting .beta.-sheet residues results from the twisted nature of the sheet surface and the attendant rotation of the side-chains. At a more detailed level,4 of the .alpha.-helical residues (i + 1, i + 4, i + 5 and i + 8) form a diamond that surrounds one particular .beta.-sheet residue, generally isoleucine, leucine or valine. In general, the .alpha.-helix sits 10 .ANG. above the sheet and lies parallel to the strand direction. The prediction follows a combinational approach. First, a list of possible .beta.-sheet structures (106 to 1014) is constructed by the generation of all .beta.-sheet topologies and .beta.-strand alignments. This list is reduced by constraints on topology and the location of non-polar residues to mediate the sheet/helix packing, and then rank-ordered on the extent of H-bonding. This algorithm was uniformly applied to 16 .alpha./.beta. domains in 13 proteins. For every structure, 1 member of the reduced list was close to the crystal structure; the root-mean-square deviation between equivalenced C.alpha. atoms averaged 5.6 .ANG. for 100 residues. For the .alpha./.beta. proteins with pure parallel .beta.-sheets, the total number of structures comparable to or better than the native in terms of H-bonds was between 1 and 148. For proteins with mixed .beta.-sheets, the worst case is glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, where as many as 3800 structures would have to be sampled. The evolutionary significance of these results as well as the potential use of a combinatorial approach to the protein folding problem are discussed.