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Fast computational mutation-response scanning of proteins.

ABSTRACT: Studying the effect of perturbations on protein structure is a basic approach in protein research. Important problems, such as predicting pathological mutations and understanding patterns of structural evolution, have been addressed by computational simulations that model mutations using forces and predict the resulting deformations. In single mutation-response scanning simulations, a sensitivity matrix is obtained by averaging deformations over point mutations. In double mutation-response scanning simulations, a compensation matrix is obtained by minimizing deformations over pairs of mutations. These very useful simulation-based methods may be too slow to deal with large proteins, protein complexes, or large protein databases. To address this issue, I derived analytical closed formulas to calculate the sensitivity and compensation matrices directly, without simulations. Here, I present these derivations and show that the resulting analytical methods are much faster than their simulation counterparts.

SUBMITTER: Echave J

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8067912 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Fast computational mutation-response scanning of proteins.

Echave Julian J

PeerJ 20210421

Studying the effect of perturbations on protein structure is a basic approach in protein research. Important problems, such as predicting pathological mutations and understanding patterns of structural evolution, have been addressed by computational simulations that model mutations using forces and predict the resulting deformations. In single mutation-response scanning simulations, a sensitivity matrix is obtained by averaging deformations over point mutations. In double mutation-response scann ...[more]

PMID: 33976988

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