Protein-RNA complexes and efficient automatic docking: expanding RosettaDock possibilities.

ABSTRACT: Protein-RNA complexes provide a wide range of essential functions in the cell. Their atomic experimental structure solving, despite essential to the understanding of these functions, is often difficult and expensive. Docking approaches that have been developed for proteins are often challenging to adapt for RNA because of its inherent flexibility and the structural data available being relatively scarce. In this study we adapted the RosettaDock protocol for protein-RNA complexes both at the nucleotide and atomic levels. Using a genetic algorithm-based strategy, and a non-redundant protein-RNA dataset, we derived a RosettaDock scoring scheme able not only to discriminate but also score efficiently docking decoys. The approach proved to be both efficient and robust for generating and identif

SUBMITTER: Guilhot-Gaudeffroy A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4182525 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature