Protein-protein Complexes: Analysis, Modeling And Drug Design

by Martin Zacharias

Overview

Given the immense progress achieved in elucidating protein-protein complex structures and in the field of protein interaction modeling, there is great demand for a book that gives interested researchers/students a comprehensive overview of the field. This book does just that. It focuses on what can be learned about protein-protein interactions from the analysis of protein-protein complex structures and interfaces. What are the driving forces for protein-protein association? How can we extract the mechanism of specific recognition from studying protein-protein interfaces? How can this knowledge be used to predict and design protein-protein interactions (interaction regions and complex structures)? What methods are currently employed to design protein-protein interactions, and how can we influence protein-protein interactions by mutagenesis and small-molecule drugs or peptide mimetics? The book consists of about 15 review chapters, written by experts, on the characterization of protein-protein interfaces, structure determination of protein complexes (by NMR and X-ray), theory of protein-protein binding, dynamics of protein interfaces, bioinformatics methods to predict interaction regions, and prediction of protein-protein complex structures (docking and homology modeling of complexes, etc.) and design of protein-protein interactions. It serves as a bridge between studying/analyzing protein-protein complex structures (interfaces), predicting interactions, and influencing/designing interactions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848163393
Publisher:	Imperial College Press
Publication date:	05/10/2010
Pages:	400
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)

Table of Contents

Preface vii

1 X-ray Study of Protein-Protein Complexes and Analysis of Interfaces Joel Janin 1

2 A Structural Perspective on Protein-Protein Interactions in Macromolecular Assemblies Ranjit P. Bahadur 25

3 Energetics of Protein-Protein Interactions Ilian Jelesarov 46

4 Kinetics of Biomacromolecular Complex Formation: Theory and Experiment Georgi V. Pachov Razif R. Gabdoulline Rebecca C. Wade 89

5 Evolutionary Trace of Protein Functional Determinants Olivier Lichtarge 119

6 Protein-Protein Docking Adrien Saladin Chantal Prevost 147

7 Data-driven Docking: Using External Information to Spark the Biomolecular Rendez-vous Adrien S.J. Melquiond Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin 182

8 High-resolution Protein-Protein Docking Nir London Ora Schueler-Furman 209

9 Scoring and Refinement of Predicted Protein-Protein Complexes Martin Zacharias 236

10 Motif-mediated Protein Interactions and their Role in Disease Holger Dinkel Heinrich Sticht 272

11 Prediction and Calculation of Protein-Protein Binding Affinities and Mutation Effects Sébastien Fiorucci Serge Antonczak Jérôme Golebiowski 295

12 Small-molecule Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions Thorsten Berg 318

13 Protein Dynamics and Drug Design: The Role of Molecular Simulations Giulia Morra Alessandro Genoni Giorgio Colombo 340

Index 387