Title
Accurate prediction of the dynamical changes within the second PDZ domain of PTP1e.
Abstract
Experimental NMR relaxation studies have shown that peptide binding induces dynamical changes at the side-chain level throughout the second PDZ domain of PTP1e, identifying as such the collection of residues involved in long-range communication. Even though different computational approaches have identified subsets of residues that were qualitatively comparable, no quantitative analysis of the accuracy of these predictions was thus far determined. Here, we show that our information theoretical method produces quantitatively better results with respect to the experimental data than some of these earlier methods. Moreover, it provides a global network perspective on the effect experienced by the different residues involved in the process. We also show that these predictions are consistent within both the human and mouse variants of this domain. Together, these results improve the understanding of intra-protein communication and allostery in PDZ domains, underlining at the same time the necessity of producing similar data sets for further validation of thses kinds of methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1371/journal.pcbi.1002794
PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY
Keywords
Field
DocType
amino acid sequence,computational biology,monte carlo method,sequence alignment,protein conformation
Sequence alignment,Data set,Protein Interaction Map,Experimental data,Biology,PDZ domain,Bioinformatics,Protein structure
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
8
11
1553-7358
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.54
7
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
elisa cilia1383.61
Geerten W. Vuister271.48
Tom Lenaerts327653.44