title: An iterative method for extracting energy-like quantities from protein structures.
abstract: We present a method (ENERGI) for extracting energy-like quantities from a data base of protein structures. In this paper, we use the method to generate pairwise additive amino acid "energy" scores. These scores are obtained by iteration until they correctly discriminate a set of known protein folds from decoy conformations. The method succeeds in lattice model tests and in the gapless threading problem as defined by Maiorov and Crippen [Maiorov, V. N. & Crippen, G. M. (1992) J. Mol. Biol. 227, 876-888]. A more challenging test of threading a larger set of test proteins derived from the representative set of Hobohm and Sander [Hobohm, U. & Sander, C. (1994) Protein Sci. 3, 522-524] is used as a "workbench" for exploring how the ENERGI scores depend on their parameter sets.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Group in Biophysics, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0448, USA.
authors.forename: P D
authors.initials: PD
authors.lastname: Thomas
authors.forename: K A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Dill
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000596:Amino Acids; D001665:Binding Sites; D001703:Biophysics / Q000379:methods; D008956:Models, Chemical; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017510:Protein Folding; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000596:Amino Acids; D011506:Proteins