Soliton concepts and the protein structure

Details Soliton concepts and the protein structure Soliton concepts and the protein structure

2011-09-18

arxiv.org/abs/1109.3903v1

Physics

Biological Physics

7 pages 6 figs

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Structural classification shows that the number of different protein folds is surprisingly small. It also appears that proteins are built in a modular fashion, from a relatively small number of components. Here we propose to identify the modular building blocks of proteins with the dark soliton solution of a generalized discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation. For this we show that practically all protein loops can be obtained simply by scaling the size and by joining together a number of copies of the soliton, one after another. The soliton has only two loop specific parameters and we identify their possible values in Protein Data Bank. We show that with a collection of 200 sets of parameters, each determining a soliton profile that describes a different short loop, we cover over 90% of all proteins with experimental accuracy. We also present two examples that describe how the loop library can be employed both to model and to analyze the structure of folded proteins.

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