Issue February 2005

category image Volume 22
No. 4 (p 381-492)
February 2005
ISSN 0739-110

Protein Interactions and Fluctuations in a Proteomic Network using an Elastic Network Model (p. 381-386)

A set of protein conformations are analyzed by normal mode analysis. An elastic network model is used to obtain fluctuation and cooperativity of residues with low amplitude fluctuations across different species. Slow modes that are associated with the function of proteins have common features among different protein structures. We show that the degree of flexibility of the protein is important for proteins to interact with other proteins and as the species gets more complex its proteins become more flexible. In the complex organism, higher cooperativity arises due to protein structure and connectivity.

Melik C. Demirel1,*
Ozlem Keskin2,3

1College of Engineering
Pennsylvania State University
University Park, PA 16802 USA
2Center of Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and College of Engineering
Koc University
34450, Istanbul, Turkey
3Laboratory of Experimental and Computational Biology
NCI-Frederick, NIH
Frederick, MD 21702 USA
*melikdemirel@psu.edu

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