bio3d (version 2.1-1)

load.enmff: ENM Force Field Loader

Description

Load force field for elastic network normal mode calculation.

Usage

load.enmff(ff = 'calpha')
ff.calpha(r, rmin=2.9, ...)
ff.anm(r, cutoff=15, gamma=1, ...)
ff.pfanm(r, cutoff=NULL, ...)
ff.calphax(r, atom.id, ssdat=NULL, verbose=FALSE, ...)
ff.sdenm(r, atom.id, ssdat=NULL, ...)
ff.reach(r, atom.id, ssdat=NULL, ...)

Arguments

ff

a character string specifying the force field to use: calpha, anm, pfanm, calphax, reach, or sdenm.

r

a numeric vector of c-alpha distances.

rmin

lowest allowed atom-atom distance for the force constant calculation. The default of 2.9A is based on an evaluation of 24 high-resolution X-ray structures (< 1A).

cutoff

numerical, cutoff for pair-wise interactions.

gamma

numerical, global scaling factor.

atom.id

atomic index.

ssdat

sequence and structure data.

verbose

logical, if TRUE interaction details are printed.

...

additional arguments (for technical reasons).

Value

• load.enmff returns a function for calculating the spring force constants. The ff functions returns a numeric vector of residue-residue spring force constants.

Details

This function provides a collection of elastic network model (ENM) force fields for normal modes analysis (NMA) of protein structures. It returns a function for calculating the residue-residue spring force constants.

The calpha force field - originally developed by Konrad Hinsen - is the recommended one for most applications. It employs a spring force constant differentiating between nearest-neighbour pairs along the backbone and all other pairs. The force constant function was parameterized by fitting to a local minimum of a crambin model using the AMBER94 force field.

The implementation of the ANM (Anisotropic Network Model) force field originates from the lab of Ivet Bahar. It uses a simplified (step function) spring force constant based on the pair-wise distance. A variant of this from the Jernigan lab is the so-called pfANM (parameter free ANM) with interactions that fall off with the square of the distance. The calphax force field is an extension of the original calpha force field by Hinsen. In this implementation we have included specific force constants for disulfide bridges, helix 1-4 interactions, and beta sheet bridges.

The sdENM (by Dehouck and Mikhailov) employs residue specific spring force constants. It has been parameterized through a statistical analysis of a total of 1500 NMR ensembles.

The REACH force field (by Moritsugu and Smith) is parameterized based on variance-covariance matrices obtained from MD simulations. It employs force constants that fall off exponentially with distance for non-bonded pairs.

See references for more details on the individual force fields.

References

Hinsen, K. et al. (2000) Chemical Physics 261, 25--37. Atilgan, A.R. et al. (2001) Biophysical Journal 80, 505--515. Dehouck Y. & Mikhailov A.S. (2013) PLoS Comput Biol 9:e1003209. Moritsugu K. & Smith J.C. (2008) Biophysical Journal 95, 1639--1648. Yang, L. et al. (2009) PNAS 104, 12347-52. Grant, B.J. et al. (2006) Bioinformatics 22, 2695--2696.

See Also

nma, build.hessian

Examples

## Load the c-alpha force field
pfc.fun <- load.enmff('calpha')

## Calculate the pair force constant for a set of C-alpha distances
force.constants <- pfc.fun( seq(4,8, by=0.5) )

## Calculate the complete spring force constant matrix
## Fetch PDB
pdb <- read.pdb("1hel")

## Fetch only c-alpha coordinates
ca.inds <- atom.select(pdb, 'calpha')
xyz <- pdb$xyz[ca.inds$xyz]

## Calculate distance matrix
dists <- dm.xyz(xyz, mask.lower=FALSE)

## all pair-wise spring force constants
fc.matrix <- apply(dists, 1, pfc.fun)