title: Protein-protein docking in CAPRI using ATTRACT to account for global and local flexibility.
abstract: A reduced protein model combined with a systematic docking approach has been employed to predict protein-protein complex structures in CAPRI rounds 6-11. The docking approach termed ATTRACT is based on energy minimization in translational and rotational degrees of freedom of one protein with respect to the second protein starting from many thousand initial protein partner placements. It also allows for approximate inclusion of global flexibility of protein partners during systematic docking by conformational relaxation of the partner proteins in precalculated soft collective backbone degrees of freedom. We have submitted models for six targets, achieved acceptable docking solutions for two targets, and predicted >20% correct contacts for five targets. Possible improvements of the docking approach in particular at the scoring and refinement steps are discussed.
authors.affiliation: School of Engineering and Science, Jacobs University Bremen, D-28759 Bremen, Germany.
authors.forename: Andreas
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: May
authors.forename: Martin
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zacharias
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019295:Computational Biology / Q000379:methods*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D018360:Crystallography, X-Ray / Q000379:methods; D030562:Databases, Protein; D019281:Dimerization; D023281:Genomics; D008024:Ligands; D008968:Molecular Conformation; D011485:Protein Binding; D011487:Protein Conformation; D025941:Protein Interaction Mapping; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D040901:Proteomics / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software