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A new method is described for generating all-atom protein structures from Cα-atom information. The method, which combines both local structural trace alignments and comparative side chain modeling with ab initio side chain modeling, makes use of both the virtual-bond and the dipole-path methods. Provided that 3D structures of structurally and functionally related proteins exist, the method presented here is highly suitable for generating all-atom coordinates of partly solved, low-resolution crystal structures. Particularly the active site region can be modeled accurately with this procedure, which enables investigation of the binding modes of different classes of ligands with molecular dynamics simulations. The method is applied to the trace of Streptococcus pneumoniae, in order to construct an all-atom structure of the transpeptidase domain. Since after generation of full coordinates of the transpeptidase domain the structure had been solved to 2.4 Å resolution, new X-ray coordinates for the worst modeled loop (residues T370 to M386; 17 out of a total number of 351 residues constituting the transpeptidase domain) were incorporated, as kindly provided by Dr. Dideberg. The structure was relaxed with molecular dynamics simulations and simulated annealing methods. The RMS deviation between the 144 aligned Cα-atoms and the corresponding ones in the originally solved 3.5 Å resolution crystal structure was 0.98. The 351 Cα-atoms of the whole transpeptidase domain of the final model showed an RMS deviation of 1.58. The Ramachandran plot showed that 79.3% of the residues are in the most favored regions, with only 1.0% occurring in disallowed regions. The model presented here can be used to investigate the three-dimensional influences of mutations around the active site of PBP2x.
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van Hooft, P.A., Höltje, HD. Construction of a full three-dimensional model of the transpeptidase domain of Streptococcus pneumoniae PBP2x starting from its Cα-atom coordinates. J Comput Aided Mol Des 14, 719–730 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008164914993
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