title: New advances in normal mode analysis of supermolecular complexes and applications to structural refinement.
abstract: Normal mode analysis is an effective computational method for studying large-amplitude low-frequency molecular deformations that are ubiquitously involved in the functions of biological macromolecules, especially supermolecular complexes. The recent years have witnessed a substantial advance in methodology development in the field. This review is intended to summarize some of the important advances that enable one to simulate deformations of supermolecular complexes at expended resolution- and length-scales, with particular emphasis on the implications in structural refinement against low- to intermediate-resolution structural data such as those from electron cryomicroscopy and fibre diffraction.
authors.affiliation: Graduate Program of Structural and Computational Biology and Molecular Biophysics and Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA. jpma@bcm.tmc.edu
authors.forename: Jianpeng
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ma
mesh_terms: D008841:Actin Cytoskeleton / Q000737:chemistry; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D020285:Cryoelectron Microscopy; D064429:Fatty Acid Synthases / Q000737:chemistry; D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D008958:Models, Molecular; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D009038:Motion; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry; D013499:Surface Properties
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances; D011506:Proteins; D064429:Fatty Acid Synthases