This chapter describes a protocol to establish a three-dimensional (3D) model of a protein and to explore its conformational landscape. It combines predictions from up-to-date bioinformatics methods with low-resolution experimental data. It also proposes to examine rapidly the dynamics of the protein using molecular dynamics simulations with a coarse-grained force field. Tools for analyzing these trajectories are suggested as well as those for constructing all-atoms models. Thus, starting from a protein sequence and using free software, the user can get important conformational information, which might improve the knowledge about the protein function.
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Vaitinadapoule, A., & Etchebest, C. (2017). Molecular modeling of transporters: From low resolution cryo-electron microscopy map to conformational exploration. The example of TSPO. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1635, pp. 383–416). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-7151-0_21
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