Abstract
Recent advances in identifying residue–residue contacts from large multiple sequence alignments have enabled impressive gains to be made in the field of protein structure prediction. In this chapter, we discuss these advances and provide a step-by-step guide to applying the latest tools to the de novo modelling of alpha-helical transmembrane proteins. As a practical example, we demonstrate the process of building an accurate 3D model of a G protein-coupled receptor, correctly orientated in the membrane, using only its primary protein sequence.
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Nugent, T. (2015). De Novo Membrane Protein Structure Prediction. In: Kukol, A. (eds) Molecular Modeling of Proteins. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1215. Humana Press, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-1465-4_15
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