Title
Sdock: A Global Protein-Protein Docking Program Using Stepwise Force-Field Potentials
Abstract
Fast Fourier transform (FFT) method limits the forms of scoring functions in global protein-protein docking. On the other hand, force field potentials can effectively describe the energy hyper surface of biological macromolecules. In this study, we developed a new protein-protein docking program, SDOCK, that incorporates van der Waals attractive potential, geometric collision, screened electrostatic potential, and Lazaridis-Karplus desolvation energy into the scoring function in the global searching process. Stepwise potentials were generated from the corresponding continuous forms to treat the structure flexibility. After optimization of the atom solvation parameters and the weights of different potential terms based on a new docking test set that contains 142 cases with small or moderate conformational changes upon binding, SDOCK slightly outperformed the well-known FFT based global docking program ZDOCK3.0. Among the 142 cases tested, 52.8% gave at least one near-native solutions in the top 100 solutions. SDOCK was also tested on six blind testing cases in Critical Assessment of Predicted Interactions rounds 13 to 18. In all six cases, the near-native solutions could be found within the top 350 solutions. Because the SDOCK approach performs global docking based on force-field potentials, one of its advantages is that it provides global binding free energy surface profiles for further analysis. The efficiency of the program is also comparable with that of other FFT based protein-protein docking programs. SDOCK is available for noncommercial applications at http://mdl.ipc.pku.edu.cn/cgi-bin/down.cgi. (C) 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Comput Chem 32: 2598-2612, 2011
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1002/jcc.21839
JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL CHEMISTRY
Keywords
Field
DocType
protein-protein docking, stepwise potentials, force-field potentials, protein interaction, Lazaridis-Karplus desolvation
Force field (physics),Bin,Searching the conformational space for docking,Docking (dog),Computational chemistry,Chemistry,van der Waals force,Fast Fourier transform,Solvation,Test set
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
32
12
0192-8651
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.40
10
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Changsheng Zhang120.40
Luhua Lai236933.78