Modeling of Disordered Protein Structures Using Monte Carlo Simulations and Knowledge-Based Statistical Force Fields

The description of protein disordered states is important for understanding protein folding mechanisms and their functions. In this short review, we briefly describe a simulation approach to modeling protein interactions, which involve disordered peptide partners or intrinsically disordered protein regions, and unfolded states of globular proteins. It is based on the CABS coarse-grained protein model that uses a Monte Carlo (MC) sampling scheme and a knowledge-based statistical force field. We review several case studies showing that description of protein disordered states resulting from CABS simulations is consistent with experimental data. The case studies comprise investigations of protein–peptide binding and protein folding processes. The CABS model has been recently made available as the simulation engine of multiscale modeling tools enabling studies of protein–peptide docking and protein flexibility. Those tools offer customization of the modeling process, driving the conformational search using distance restraints, reconstruction of selected models to all-atom resolution, and simulation of large protein systems in a reasonable computational time. Therefore, CABS can be combined in integrative modeling pipelines incorporating experimental data and other modeling tools of various resolution. View Full-Text

Keywords: coarse-grained; CABS model; MC simulations; statistical force fields; disordered protein; protein structure

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Ciemny, M.P.; Badaczewska-Dawid, A.E.; Pikuzinska, M.; Kolinski, A.; Kmiecik, S. Modeling of Disordered Protein Structures Using Monte Carlo Simulations and Knowledge-Based Statistical Force Fields. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2019, 20, 606. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20030606

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Ciemny MP, Badaczewska-Dawid AE, Pikuzinska M, Kolinski A, Kmiecik S. Modeling of Disordered Protein Structures Using Monte Carlo Simulations and Knowledge-Based Statistical Force Fields. International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2019; 20(3):606. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20030606

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Ciemny, Maciej P., Aleksandra E. Badaczewska-Dawid, Monika Pikuzinska, Andrzej Kolinski, and Sebastian Kmiecik. 2019. "Modeling of Disordered Protein Structures Using Monte Carlo Simulations and Knowledge-Based Statistical Force Fields" International Journal of Molecular Sciences 20, no. 3: 606. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijms20030606

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