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In this work, the traditional method of potential of mean force (PMF) is improved for describing the protein-protein interactions. This method is developed at atomic level and is distance-dependent. Compared with the traditional method, our model can reasonably consider the effects of the environmental factors. With this modification, we can obtain more reasonable and accurate pair potentials, which are the pre-requisite for precisely describing the protein-protein interactions and can help us to recognize the interaction rules of residues in protein systems. Our method can also be applied to other fields of protein science, e.g., protein fold recognition, structure prediction and prediction of thermostability.
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Su, Y., Li, W., Zhang, J. et al. An improved method of potential of mean force for protein-protein interactions. Chin. Sci. Bull. 53, 1145–1151 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11434-008-0036-8
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