PEP-FOLD3: faster de novo structure prediction for linear peptides in solution and in complex

A Lamiable, P Thévenet, J Rey, M Vavrusa… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
A Lamiable, P Thévenet, J Rey, M Vavrusa, P Derreumaux, P Tufféry
Nucleic acids research, 2016academic.oup.com
Abstract Structure determination of linear peptides of 5–50 amino acids in aqueous solution
and interacting with proteins is a key aspect in structural biology. PEP-FOLD3 is a novel
computational framework, that allows both (i) de novo free or biased prediction for linear
peptides between 5 and 50 amino acids, and (ii) the generation of native-like conformations
of peptides interacting with a protein when the interaction site is known in advance. PEP-
FOLD3 is fast, and usually returns solutions in a few minutes. Testing PEP-FOLD3 on 56 …
Abstract
Structure determination of linear peptides of 5–50 amino acids in aqueous solution and interacting with proteins is a key aspect in structural biology. PEP-FOLD3 is a novel computational framework, that allows both (i) de novo free or biased prediction for linear peptides between 5 and 50 amino acids, and (ii) the generation of native-like conformations of peptides interacting with a protein when the interaction site is known in advance. PEP-FOLD3 is fast, and usually returns solutions in a few minutes. Testing PEP-FOLD3 on 56 peptides in aqueous solution led to experimental-like conformations for 80% of the targets. Using a benchmark of 61 peptide–protein targets starting from the unbound form of the protein receptor, PEP-FOLD3 was able to generate peptide poses deviating on average by 3.3Å from the experimental conformation and return a native-like pose in the first 10 clusters for 52% of the targets. PEP-FOLD3 is available at http://bioserv.rpbs.univ-paris-diderot.fr/services/PEP-FOLD3.
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