In bionet.molbio.proteins, John Kuszewski <johnk at spasm.niddk.nih.gov> wrote
:Does anyone know if there's a method to predict
:the pKas of ionizable protein groups from
:atomic coordinates?
Quite a few, actually, although the accuracy is another matter.
I believe DelPhi from Honig's group can do the calculations, which is
available for a small fee via anon ftp and also is in the package Insight.
Bashford et al [(1993) Biochemistry vol 32 p8055] has a program called
MEAD that is available for free via anon ftp. The reference has the info on
how to get it. I'm hoping to install it Real Soon so I can see how well
it does. Those are the only packages I know of that are available
for outside users.
Warshel has a program called POLARIS [Warshel et al (1984) PNAS vol 81
p4785] and there is an FDPB method described by Antosiewicz [(1994) vol 238
p415] that did a fairly good job on RNase A. And the ubiquitous Fred
Richards did this ages ago [Matthews & Richards (1982) Biochemistry vol.
21 p4989]. I don't know if any of these folks have made their packages
available for academic use; if you find out, lemme know. :-)
Wayne Baker (baker at iastate.edu) Maybe a great magnet pulls
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