BIOINFORMATICS Structures

11/14/99


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BIOINFORMATICS Structures

Contents: Structures

Molecular Biology Information: Macromolecular Structure

Molecular Biology Information: Protein Structure Details

Other Aspects of Structure, Besides just Comparing Atom Positions

What is Protein Geometry?

Depicting Protein Structure: Sperm Whale Myoglobin

Incredulase

Structure alignment - Method

Sperm Whale Myoglobin

Structural Alignment of Two Globins

Automatic Alignment to Build Fold Library

Automatically Comparing Protein Structures

RMS Superposition (1)

RMS Superposition (2): Distance Between an Atom in 2 Structures

RMS Superposition (3): RMS Distance Between Aligned Atoms in 2 Structures

RMS Superposition (4): Rigid-Body Rotation and Translation of One Structure (B)

RMS Superposition (5): Optimal Movement of One Structure to Minimize the RMS

Alignment (1) Make a Similarity Matrix (Like Dot Plot)

Structural Alignment (1b) Make a Similarity Matrix (Generalized Similarity Matrix)

Structural Alignment (1c*) Similarity Matrix for Structural Alignment

Alignment (2): Dynamic Programming, Start Computing the Sum Matrix

Alignment (3):Dynamic Programming, Keep Going

Alignment (4): Dynamic Programming, Sum Matrix All Done

Alignment (5): Traceback

In Structural Alignment, Not Yet Done (Step 6*)

Structural Alignment (7*), Iterate Until Convergence

Structure alignment - Scoring

Score S at End Just Like SW Score, but also have final RMS

Some Similarities are Readily Apparent others are more Subtle

Some Similarities are Readily Apparent others are more Subtle

P-values

Statistics on Range of Similarities

Scores from Structural Alignment Distributed Just Like Ones from Sequence Alignment (E.V.D.)

Same Results for Sequence & Structure

Score Significance (P-value) derived from Extreme Value Distribution (just like BLAST, FASTA)

RMS is a similarity Score

Structure alignment - Other methods

Refine Method

Significance Ignoring Crucial Features in Structural Similarity

Other Methods of Structural Alignment

Fold Library vs. Other Fundamental Data structures

Fold Classifications

Sequence-structure Relationships

Adding Structure to Functional Genomics, Function to Structural Genomics

Chothia & Lesk, 1986 -- 32 points

Chothia and Lesk, revisited 16K points

Problems with RMS

Structural Comp. Score vs.Smith-Waterman Score

Problems with Structural Alignment Score

Modern statistical language

Focus on Twilight Zone

Hierarchy of Protein Functions

Relationship of Similarity in Sequence & Structure to that in Function

Relationship of Similarity in Sequence & Structure, & Function - Summary

Surfaces I

Protein Surfaces -- Accessible Surface

Molecular Surface

Richards’ Molecular and Accessible Surfaces

How to Calculate Accessible Surface Area

Shrake & Rupley algorithm (easier)

Calculation of Volumes

Voronoi Volumes

Classic Papers

Calculating Volumes with Voronoi polyhedra

Determining Voronoi Volumes

Collecting Vertices and Calculating Volumes

Atoms have different sizes

Complexity from different atom sizes requires new ways to calculate polyhedra

Representing Lines, Planes, and their Intersection

PPT Slide

Delauney Triangulation, the Natural Way to Define Packing Neighbors

Properties of Voronoi Polyhedra

Voronoi diagrams are generally useful, beyond proteins

Voronoi Volumes & Packing

Voronoi Volumes, the Natural Way to Measure Packing

Close-Packing of Spheres

Other Well Known Sphere Arrangements

Optimal Packing Finally Proved

Water v. Argon

Small Packing Changes Significant

Packing ~ VDW force

Close-packing is Default

Standard Radii & Volumes

Different Sets of Radii

ProtOr Parameter Set

Factors Affecting Volume Calculations

Set of VDW Radii

Standard Residue Volumes

Standard Core Volumes (Prelim.)

Clustering into a set of Atom Types I

Clustering into a set of Atom Types II

Compare Different Structure Sets

Overlap of Volumes of Aromatic C3H1 and Aliphatic C4H2

Surfaces II

Packing at Interfaces

Packing defines the “Correct Definition” of the Protein Surface

Surface and Volume Definitions Linked

Problem of Protein Surface for Voronoi Construction

Sensitivity of Voronoi Construction to Surface Structure

Hydration Surface

Defining Surfaces from Packing: Convex Hull and Layers of Waters

Defining a Surface from the Faces of Voronoi Polyhedra

Accessible Surface as a Time-averaged Water Layer

The Hydration Surface: Trying to Model Real Water

Other Applications of Volumes -- Motions, Docking

Interface Packing and Motions

Packing Based Classification: Hinge v Shear

Absence of Tight Packing at Hinge Chain Topology is not important

Docking

Author: Office97

Email: Mark.Gerstein@yale.edu

Home Page: http://bioinfo.mbb.yale.edu