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Testing similarity measures with continuous and discrete protein models

Författare

  • Stefan Wallin
  • J Farwer
  • U Bastolla

Summary, in English

There are many ways to define the distance between two protein structures, thus assessing their similarity. Here, we investigate and compare the properties of five different distance measures, including the standard root-mean-square deviation (cRMSD). The performance of these measures is studied from different perspectives with two different protein models, one continuous and the other discrete. Using the continuous model, we examine the correlation between energy and native distance, and the ability of the different measures to discriminate between the two possible topologies of a three-helix bundle. Using the discrete model, we perform fits to real protein structures by minimizing different distance measures. The properties of the fitted structures are found to depend strongly on the distance measure used and the scale considered. We find that the cRMSD measure very effectively describes long-range features but is less effective with short-range features, and it correlates weakly with energy. A stronger correlation with energy and a better description of short-range properties is obtained, when we use measures based on intramolecular distances.

Publiceringsår

2003

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

144-157

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Proteins

Volym

50

Issue

1

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Ämne

  • Biophysics

Nyckelord

  • protein structure comparison
  • protein folding
  • distance measure
  • root-mean-square deviation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0887-3585