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Iakovou, Georgios, Laycock, Stephen and Hayward, Steven 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6959-2604
(2016)
Determination of locked interfaces in biomolecular complexes using Haptimol_RD.
Biophysics and Physicobiology, 13.
pp. 97-103.
ISSN 2189-4779
Abstract
Interactive haptics-assisted docking provides a virtual environment for the study of molecular complex formation. It enables the user to interact with the virtual molecules, experience the interaction forces via their sense of touch, and gain insights about the docking process itself. Here we use a recently developed haptics software tool, Haptimol_RD, for the rigid docking of protein subunits to form complexes. Dimers, both homo and hetero, are loaded into the software with their subunits separated in space for the purpose of assessing whether they can be brought back into the correct docking pose via rigid-body movements. Four dimers were classified into two types: two with an interwinding subunit interface and two with a non-interwinding subunit interface. It was found that the two with an interwinding interface could not be docked whereas the two with the non-interwinding interface could be. For the two that could be docked a “sucking” effect could be felt on the haptic device when the correct binding pose was approached which is associated with a minimum in the interaction energy. It is clear that for those that could not be docked, the conformation of one or both of the subunits must change upon docking. This leads to the steric-based concept of a locked or non-locked interface. Non-locked interfaces have shapes that allow the subunits to come together or come apart without the necessity of intra-subunit conformational change, whereas locked interfaces require a conformational change within one or both subunits for them to be able to come apart.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | protein-protein interaction, haptic feedback,force feedback,protein docking,interwinding interface |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Computing Sciences Faculty of Science |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Interactive Graphics and Audio Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Computational Biology |
| Depositing User: | Pure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 22 Mar 2016 09:33 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Mar 2024 01:55 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/57804 |
| DOI: | 10.2142/biophysico.13.0_97 |
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