Coarse-graining protein energetics in sequence variables

Details Coarse-graining protein energetics in sequence variables Coarse-graining protein energetics in sequence variables

2005-10-03

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0510017v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 148103 (2005)

Physics

Biological Physics

10 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.148103

We show that cluster expansions (CE), previously used to model solid-state materials with binary or ternary configurational disorder, can be extended to the protein design problem. We present a generalized CE framework, in which properties such as energy can be unambiguously expanded in the amino-acid sequence space. The CE coarse grains over nonsequence degrees of freedom (e.g., side-chain conformations) and thereby simplifies the problem of designing proteins, or predicting the compatibility of a sequence with a given structure, by many orders of magnitude. The CE is physically transparent, and can be evaluated through linear regression on the energies of training sequences. We show, as example, that good prediction accuracy is obtained with up to pairwise interactions for a coiled-coil backbone, and that triplet interactions are important in the energetics of a more globular zinc-finger backbone.

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