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THE STRUCTURE WAS DETERMINED USING 1104 DISTANCE RESTRAINTS, 42 DIHEDRAL ANGLE RESTRAINTS AND 14 HYDROGEN BOND RESTRAINTS. 50 STRUCTURES WERE CALCULATED AND REFINED USING AN AB INITIO SIMULATED ANNEALING PROTOCOL FOR X- PLOR AND THEN REFINED IN TWO STEPS. AN R-6 AVERAGING PROTOCOL WAS USED FOR NON-STEREOSPECIFICALLY ASSIGNED PROTONS [1]. DURING THE SIMULATED ANNEALING STEP AND THE FIRST REFINEMENT STEP ONLY THE REPULSIVE PART OF THE VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION WAS INCLUDED. IN THE SECOND REFINEMENT STEP THE VAN DER WAALS INTERACTION WAS PARAMETERIZED USING A LENNARD-JONES POTENTIAL INCLUDING THE ATTRACTIVE PART. 21 STRUCTURES WERE SELECTED ON THE BASIS OF CUMULATIVE RMSD VALUES OF STRUCTURES, ORDERED AFTER OVERALL ENERGY, AND RAMACHANDRAN BEHAVIOR FOR REGIONS WITH LOW RESTRAINT DENSITIES. [1] BRUNGER, A. T., CLORE, G. M., GRONENBORN, A. M. & KARPLUS, M. (1986). THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURE OF PROTEINS DETERMINED BY MOLECULAR DYNAMICS WITH INTERPROTON DISTANCE RESTRAINTS: APPLICATION TO CRAMBIN. PROC NATL ACAD SCI USA 83, 3801-3805. OTHER DETAILS OF STRUCTURE REFINEMENT CAN BE FOUND IN THE JRNL CITATION. |
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