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  • Title: Refinement of the thrombin-bound structure of a hirudin peptide by a restrained electrostatically driven Monte Carlo method.
    Author: Ripoll DR, Ni F.
    Journal: Biopolymers; 1992 Apr; 32(4):359-65. PubMed ID: 1623131.
    Abstract:
    Energy refinement of the structure of a linear peptide, hirudin56-65, bound to thrombin was carried out using a conformational search method in combination with restrained minimization. Five conformations originated from nmr data and distance geometry calculations having a similar global folding pattern but quite different backbone conformations were used as the starting structures. As a result of this approach, a series of low-energy conformations compatible with a set of upper and lower bounds of interproton distances determined from transferred nuclear Overhauser effects were found. A comparison among the lowest energy conformations of each run showed that the combination of energy refinement plus distance constraints led to a very well-defined structure for both the backbone and the side chains of the last 7 residues of the polypeptide. Furthermore, the low-energy conformations generated with this technique contain a segment of 3(10)-helix involving the last 5 residues at the COOH terminal end.
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