3.1 Papers
3.1.6 Chronological list
3.1.6.32 Totrov, M.M., and Abagyan, R.A. (1994). Detailed ab initio prediction of lysozyme-antibody complex with 1.6 accuracy. Nature Structural Biology, 1, 259-263
The fundamental event in biological assembly is association of two biological macromolecules. Here we present a successful,
accurate ab initio prediction of the binding of uncomplexed lysozyme to the HyHel5 antibody. The prediction combines
pseudo Brownian Monte Carlo minimization with a biased-probability global side-chain placement procedure. It was
effected in an all-atom representation, with ECEPP/2 potentials complemented with the surface energy, side-chain entropy
and electrostatic polarization free energy. The near-native solution found was surprisingly close to the crystallographic
structure (root-mean-square deviation of 1.57 A for all backbone atoms of lysozyme) and had a considerably lower energy
(by 20 kcal/mol) than any other solution.