Abstract
Community network analysis (CNA) of correlated protein motions allows modeling of signals propagation in allosteric proteic systems. From standard classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, protein motions can be analysed by means of mutual information between pairs of amino acid residues, providing dynamical weighted networks that contains fundamental information of the communication among amino acids. The CNA method has been successfully applied to a variety of allosteric systems including an enzyme, a nuclear receptor and a bacterial adaptive immune system, providing characterization of the allosteric pathways. This method is complementary to network analyses based on different metrics and it is particularly powerful for studying large proteic systems, as it provides a coarse-grained view of the communication flows within large and complex networks.
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Rivalta, I., Batista, V.S. (2021). Community Network Analysis of Allosteric Proteins. In: Di Paola, L., Giuliani, A. (eds) Allostery. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2253. Humana, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1154-8_9
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