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Minimising space exploration during docking

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Minimising space exploration during docking
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Hello,

I am trying to dock a single helix onto a specific region of a protein. When running a docking simulation using Pyrosetta the helix moves to another site on the protein. Is it possible to only allow the helix to explore a certain region of the target protein?

Many thanks in advance,

Alexander

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Mon, 2014-09-22 10:37
asf40

How are you doing the docking? (What movers are you using?) Often with the docking movers there's ways (settings you can pass) to limit the allowed range of translation they make. Alternatively, if you already know that the helix is in the rough binding orientation (e.g. within a few Angstroms in translation and no more than several tens of degrees off on rotation), you may be able to skip the low resolution stage of the docking protocol, and just use the high resolution refinement step.

Another option is to define the binding site/orientation that you're interested with constraints (restraints), and use those bias the docking protocol. This works well if you know of particular interactions, but are unsure of position/orientation.

Tue, 2014-09-23 08:05
rmoretti