The Impact of Side-Chain Packing on Protein Docking Refinement

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Abstract

We study the impact of optimizing the side-chain positions in the interface region between two proteins during the process of binding. Mathematically, the problem is similar to side-chain prediction, which has been extensively explored in the process of protein structure prediction. The protein-protein docking application, however, has a number of characteristics that necessitate different algorithmic and implementation choices. In this work, we implement a distributed approximate algorithm that can be implemented on multiprocessor architectures and enables a trade-off between accuracy and running speed. We report computational results on benchmarks of enzyme-inhibitor and other types of complexes, establishing that the side-chain flexibility our algorithm introduces substantially improves the performance of docking protocols. Furthermore, we establish that the inclusion of unbound side-chain conformers in the side-chain positioning problem is critical in these performance improvements. The code is available to the community under open source license.

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