Title
Application of asymmetric statistical potentials to antibody-protein docking.
Abstract
An effective docking algorithm for antibody-protein antigen complex prediction is an important first step toward design of biologics and vaccines. We have recently developed a new class of knowledge-based interaction potentials called Decoys as the Reference State (DARS) and incorporated DARS into the docking program PIPER based on the fast Fourier transform correlation approach. Although PIPER was the best performer in the latest rounds of the CAPRI protein docking experiment, it is much less accurate for docking antibody-protein antigen pairs than other types of complexes, in spite of incorporating sequence-based information on the location of the paratope. Analysis of antibody-protein antigen complexes has revealed an inherent asymmetry within these interfaces. Specifically, phenylalanine, tryptophan and tyrosine residues highly populate the paratope of the antibody but not the epitope of the antigen.Since this asymmetry cannot be adequately modeled using a symmetric pairwise potential, we have removed the usual assumption of symmetry. Interaction statistics were extracted from antibody-protein complexes under the assumption that a particular atom on the antibody is different from the same atom on the antigen protein. The use of the new potential significantly improves the performance of docking for antibody-protein antigen complexes, even without any sequence information on the location of the paratope. We note that the asymmetric potential captures the effects of the multi-body interactions inherent to the complex environment in the antibody-protein antigen interface.The method is implemented in the ClusPro protein docking server, available at http://cluspro.bu.edu.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1093/bioinformatics/bts493
Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
docking antibody,protein antigen complex prediction,cluspro protein,antigen protein,docking program,protein complex,protein antigen interface,asymmetric statistical potential,protein antigen complex,protein docking,capri protein,protein antigen pair,algorithms,proteins,fourier analysis,protein binding
Epitope,Antigen,Docking (dog),Computer science,Molecular Docking Simulation,Macromolecular docking,Bioinformatics,Paratope,Antigen-Antibody Complex,Antibody
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
28
20
1367-4811
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.55
3
Authors
9
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ryan Brenke1544.63
David R. Hall213611.68
Gwo-Yu Chuang3727.25
Stephen R. Comeau410213.54
Tanggis Bohnuud5212.43
Dmitri Beglov6727.49
Ora Schueler-Furman71027.74
Sandor Vajda827034.39
Dima Kozakov913115.72