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Ribose Binding Protein (RBP)<br />

As described in prior work[90], RBP is a member of a large family of bacterial<br />

periplasmic binding proteins[70]. Figure 5.5.a displays the generated conformers,<br />

colored by sRMSD as before. The structure that minimizes the fitness function shows<br />

fair agreement with the holo. It is clear, however, that it overpredicts the extent of<br />

closure, leading to slight interpenetration of domains.<br />

Adenylate Kinase (ADK)<br />

Adenylate Kinase is a popular example of a domain hinge bending protein. Figure 5.6.a<br />

displays the generated conformers, colored by sRMSD as before. In this case sRMSD is<br />

a very poor figure of merit. This is due to the fact that even though the holo and starting<br />

structures come from the same organism, they are from different compartments and have<br />

significant structural differences. The holo structure (inset 5.6.c) was extracted from the<br />

mitochondrial intermembrane space, while the starting (inset 5.6.b) was taken from the<br />

mitochondrial matrix. Domain 1 changes significantly from one to the other and so<br />

alignement on the basis of that region is very poor, even worse than for Biotin<br />

Carboxylase. For that reason, we do not use sRMSD at all here, but only qualitatively<br />

compare the holo to predicted. As can be seen by the reader, the predicted structure<br />

(inset 5.6.d) bears fair similarity to the holo. The former appears slightly more closed.<br />

As for Biotin Carboxylase, the experimental evidence is insufficient to make a strong<br />

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