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 학위논문

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0016932837

International Standard Book Number  

9798379849344

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

535

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Monroe, Lyman.

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

[S.l.] : Purdue University., 2022

Publication, Distribution, etc. (Imprint  

Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2022

Physical Description  

1 online resource(123 p.)

General Note  

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: B.

General Note  

Advisor: Kihara, Daisuke.

Dissertation Note  

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Purdue University, 2022.

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Summary, Etc.  

요약Proteins are the active biomolecules of the cell. They perform metabolic action, give the cell structure, protect the cell from antigens, give the cell motility, and much more. The function of proteins are intrinsically linked to their structures, so it is therefore necessary to characterize the structure of a protein to fully understand its function and operation. In this research the application of computational methods, primarily molecular dynamics, towards protein structure determination, refinement, and quality assessment were studied. I applied molecular dynamics techniques to four major projects; the determination of relative error of atomic models deposited with electron microscopy maps in the EMDB, solving and refining atomics structure models for the PhageG major capsid proteins, the elucidation of the structure the protein USP7 and the binding pose of a of a candidate therapeutic drug, and the determination of relative stability of candidate protein folds to distinguish near native models from not. Each year an increasing number of protein structures have been solved using electron microscopy (EM). The influx of solved structure has proven to be a boon to the community, but it is necessary to note that the quality EM maps vary substantially. To understand to what extent atomic structure models generated from EM matched their respective maps, two computational structure refinement methods were used to examine how much structures could be refined. The deviation from the starting structure by refinement, as well as the disagreement between refined models produced by the two computational methods, scaled inversely with both the global and local map resolutions. The results suggested that the observed discrepancy between the deposited maps and refined models is due to the lack of resolvable structural data present in EM maps at low to moderate resolutions, and therefore these annotations must be used with caution in further applications. I also successfully implemented molecular dynamics as a method for protein structure quality assessment. Proteins tend towards shapes which minimize their energy. Experimentally, the stability of a protein can be measured through several techniques, one such technique includes the controlled application of tension to proteins in an atomic force microscopy (AFM) framework. This kind of tension-based approach is of interest as it probes the force required to unfold individual domains of a protein rather than a bulk characteristic like molting point or activity. It has been shown that key features observed in an AFM experiment can be well reproduced with molecular dynamics simulation, which has been applied to characterize the mechanisms of unfolding of proteins as well as ligand-protein interactions. Steered molecular dynamics (SMD) was applied to pull and unfold proteins and determine the force required to unfold them. The relative force required to unfold different models with the same sequence was used to estimate relative model accuracy. This follows from the hypothesis that the structural stability of a given model's conformation would positively correlate with its accuracy, i.e. how close that model is to its native fold. It was found that near-native models could be successfully selected by comparing the forces required to unfold models, indicating that high unfolding forces indeed indicated high model stability, which in turn correlated with model accuracy.

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Spectrum analysis.

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Nuclear magnetic resonance--NMR.

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Magnetic fields.

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Solvents.

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Microscopy.

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Electron microscopes.

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Viruses.

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Digitization.

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Energy.

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Aperture.

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Thin films.

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Atoms & subatomic particles.

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Crystallography.

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Analytical chemistry.

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Atomic physics.

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Chemistry.

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Condensed matter physics.

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Electromagnetics.

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Materials science.

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Medical imaging.

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Optics.

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Physics.

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Virology.

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Purdue University.

Host Item Entry  

Dissertations Abstracts International. 85-01B.

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Dissertation Abstract International

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