NUS CS 5247 David Hsu Protein Motion
NUS CS 5247 David Hsu2 What is a protein? Primary level - a sequence of alphabets (amino acid molecules) Amino acids are organic (carbon-based) molecules Chemically bond with each other through peptide bonds YEPKGEVSWQ…
NUS CS 5247 David Hsu3 What is a protein? Protein backbone defines the overall shape Bond angles, lengths relatively constant Major degrees of freedom are dihedral angles Side chain motions are local and minor
NUS CS 5247 David Hsu4 Protein conformational changes
NUS CS 5247 David Hsu5 The relationship between structure & function Exist to realize protein functionality Analysis critical to biological understanding Lactate Dehydrogenase in different conformations (red and yellow)
NUS CS 5247 David Hsu6 Two Approaches Data driven With lots of data, the problem becomes that of finding out the salient motion from data. Model driven Assume a simple model of protein motion and fit it against a small amount of data. We then need to validate the model.
NUS CS 5247 David Hsu7 Principal Components X y
NUS CS 5247 David Hsu8 Singular Value Decomposition = AUΣVTVT DOF samples xx = x x
NUS CS 5247 David Hsu9 Principal Components Patterns in data New orthogonal vectors that maximize variance Compact representation of original data With / without loss X y