αCharges: partial atomic charges for AlphaFold structures in high quality

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Authors

SCHINDLER Ondřej BERKA Karel CANTARA Alessio KŘENEK Aleš TICHÝ Dominik RAČEK Tomáš SVOBODOVÁ Radka

Year of publication 2023
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Nucleic Acids Research
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Faculty of Science

Citation
Web https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad349
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkad349
Keywords molecular structures; AlphaFoldDB; partial atomic charges; electrostatics; chemoinformatics
Description The AlphaFold2 prediction algorithm opened up the possibility of exploring proteins’ structural space at an unprecedented scale. Currently, >200 million protein structures predicted by this approach are deposited in AlphaFoldDB, covering entire proteomes of multiple organisms, including humans. Predicted structures are, however, stored without detailed functional annotations describing their chemical behaviour. Partial atomic charges, which map electron distribution over a molecule and provide a clue to its chemical reactivity, are an important example of such data. We introduce the web application ?Charges: a tool for the quick calculation of partial atomic charges for protein structures from AlphaFoldDB. The charges are calculated by the recent empirical method SQE+qp, parameterised for this class of molecules using robust quantum mechanics charges (B3LYP/6-31G*/NPA) on PROPKA3 protonated structures. The computed partial atomic charges can be downloaded in common data formats or visualised via the powerful Mol* viewer. The ?Charges application is freely available at https://alphacharges.ncbr.muni.cz with no login requirement.
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