PDB_Hydro: incorporating dipolar solvents with variable density in the Poisson-Boltzmann treatment of macromolecule electrostatics.Show others and affiliations
2006 (English)In: Nucleic Acids Research, ISSN 0305-1048, E-ISSN 1362-4962, Vol. 34, no Web Server issue, p. W38-42Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
We describe a new way to calculate the electrostatic properties of macromolecules which eliminates the assumption of a constant dielectric value in the solvent region, resulting in a Generalized Poisson-Boltzmann-Langevin equation (GPBLE). We have implemented a web server (http://lorentz.immstr.pasteur.fr/pdb_hydro.php) that both numerically solves this equation and uses the resulting water density profiles to place water molecules at preferred sites of hydration. Surface atoms with high or low hydration preference can be easily displayed using a simple PyMol script, allowing for the tentative prediction of the dimerization interface in homodimeric proteins, or lipid binding regions in membrane proteins. The web site includes options that permit mutations in the sequence as well as reconstruction of missing side chain and/or main chain atoms. These tools are accessible independently from the electrostatics calculation, and can be used for other modeling purposes. We expect this web server to be useful to structural biologists, as the knowledge of solvent density should prove useful to get better fits at low resolution for X-ray diffraction data and to computational biologists, for whom these profiles could improve the calculation of interaction energies in water between ligands and receptors in docking simulations.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2006. Vol. 34, no Web Server issue, p. W38-42
Keywords [en]
homodimer, lipid, membrane protein, solvent, water, nucleic acid, protein
National Category
Biophysics Theoretical Chemistry
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-82628DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkl072ISI: 000245650200009PubMedID: 16845031Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-33747818624OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-82628DiVA, id: diva2:498433
Note
QC 20120301
2012-02-122012-02-122022-06-24Bibliographically approved