Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Surveying biomolecular frustration at atomic resolution

  • Mingchen Chen,
  • Xun Chen,
  • Nicholas P. Schafer,
  • Cecilia Clementi,
  • Elizabeth A. Komives,
  • Diego U. Ferreiro,
  • Peter G. Wolynes

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19560-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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The analysis of biomolecular frustration yielded insights into several aspects of protein behavior. Here the authors describe a framework to efficiently quantify and localize biomolecular frustration within proteins at atomic resolution, and observe that drug specificity is correlated with a minimally frustrated binding pocket leading to a funneled binding landscape.