Evaluation of the coarse-grained OPEP force field for protein-protein docking

Error message

Warning: A non-numeric value encountered in theme_biblio_tabular() (line 223 of /var/www/html/sites/all/modules/biblio/includes/biblio_theme.inc).
TitleEvaluation of the coarse-grained OPEP force field for protein-protein docking
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2016
AuthorsKynast P, Derreumaux P, Strodel B
JournalBmc Biophysics
Volume9
Date Publishedapr
ISSN2046-1682
Abstract

Background: Knowing the binding site of protein-protein complexes helps understand their function and shows possible regulation sites. The ultimate goal of protein-protein docking is the prediction of the three-dimensional structure of a protein-protein complex. Docking itself only produces plausible candidate structures, which must be ranked using scoring functions to identify the structures that are most likely to occur in nature. Methods: In this work, we rescore rigid body protein-protein predictions using the optimized potential for efficient structure prediction (OPEP), which is a coarse-grained force field. Using a force field based on continuous functions rather than a grid-based scoring function allows the introduction of protein flexibility during the docking procedure. First, we produce protein-protein predictions using ZDOCK, and after energy minimization via OPEP we rank them using an OPEP-based soft rescoring function. We also train the rescoring function for different complex classes and demonstrate its improved performance for an independent dataset. Results: The trained rescoring function produces a better ranking than ZDOCK for more than 50 % of targets, rising to over 70 % when considering only enzyme/inhibitor complexes. Conclusions: This study demonstrates for the first time that energy functions derived from the coarse-grained OPEP force field can be employed to rescore predictions for protein-protein complexes.

DOI10.1186/s13628-016-0029-y
Citation Key2016|1630