| Title: | Fast prediction of protein flexibility |
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| Authors: | ID Pražnikar, Jure (Author) |
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| Files: |  RAZ_Praznikar_Jure_2026.pdf (10,69 MB)
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 https://academic.oup.com/bioinformatics/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bioinformatics/btag175/8654525?login=false
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| Language: | English |
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| Work type: | Article |
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| Typology: | 1.01 - Original Scientific Article |
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| Organization: | IAM - Andrej Marušič Institute
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| Abstract: | Motivation Advances in hardware have made molecular dynamics (MD) simulations of protein structures faster and more accessible to the scientific community. However, accurately estimating protein flexibility using MD remains computationally demanding, especially for large systems and long time scales. Several MD-based resources—including MdMD, the DynamD database, and more recently ATLAS and mdCATH—now provide MD trajectories for thousands of proteins, enabling the development of predictive models. Results Here, the Graphlet Degree Vector (GDV) is introduced as a lightweight, fast, and easy-to-implement linear model for predicting protein flexibility directly from atom coordinates. GDV is a 15-dimensional feature vector that captures local packing and the spatial connectivity of each atom with its nearby neighbors. Trained on a subset of globular-like proteins from the ATLAS database, the GDV model achieves a Spearman correlation of 0.828 compared to MD data. The model trained on ATLAS dataset was further evaluated on independent Nuclear Magnetic Resonance and cryo-electron microscopy datasets, demonstrating the robustness and generalizability of the GDV-based approach. A key advantage of the GDV model is that it requires no additional external or experimental data and can be applied in near real time (on the order of 10 seconds) even for large proteins with 20,000 atoms on a standard desktop or laptop. Overall, the results show that a lightweight, fast, and purely coordinate-based model can provide accurate and generalizable predictions of protein flexibility across diverse folds and sizes. |
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| Keywords: | protein flexibility, graphlets, predictive model |
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| Publication version: | Author Accepted Manuscript |
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| Publication date: | 15.04.2026 |
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| Year of publishing: | 2026 |
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| Number of pages: | str. 1-9 |
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| Numbering: | Vol. , issue , [article no.] btag175 |
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| PID: | 20.500.12556/RUP-22965  |
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| UDC: | 577:547.96 |
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| ISSN on article: | 1367-4811 |
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| DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btag175 |
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| COBISS.SI-ID: | 275501315 |
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| Publication date in RUP: | 16.04.2026 |
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