Entropies Derived from the Packing Geometries Within a Single Protein Structure

Overview

Journal ACS Omega

Publisher American Chemical Society

Specialty Chemistry

Date 2022 Jun 27

PMID 35755337

Authors

Pranav M Khade

Robert L Jernigan

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Abstract

A fast, simple, yet robust method to calculate protein entropy from a single protein structure is presented here. The focus is on the atomic packing details, which are calculated by combining Voronoi diagrams and Delaunay tessellations. Even though the method is simple, the entropies computed exhibit an extremely high correlation with the entropies previously derived by other methods based on quasi-harmonic motions, quantum mechanics, and molecular dynamics simulations. These packing-based entropies account directly for the local freedom and provide entropy for any individual protein structure that could be used to compute free energies directly during simulations for the generation of more reliable trajectories and also for better evaluations of modeled protein structures. Physico-chemical properties of amino acids are compared with these packing entropies to uncover the relationships with the entropies of different residue types. A public packing entropy web server is provided at packing-entropy.bb.iastate.edu, and the application programing interface is available within the PACKMAN (https://github.com/Pranavkhade/PACKMAN) package.

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