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    Park, Hahnbeom; Bradley, Philip; Greisen, Jr, Per; Liu, Yuan; Mulligan, Vikram Khipple; Kim, David E; Baker, David; DiMaio, Frank

    Journal of chemical theory and computation, 12/2016, Volume: 12, Issue: 12
    Journal Article

    Most biomolecular modeling energy functions for structure prediction, sequence design, and molecular docking have been parametrized using existing macromolecular structural data; this contrasts molecular mechanics force fields which are largely optimized using small-molecule data. In this study, we describe an integrated method that enables optimization of a biomolecular modeling energy function simultaneously against small-molecule thermodynamic data and high-resolution macromolecular structural data. We use this approach to develop a next-generation Rosetta energy function that utilizes a new anisotropic implicit solvation model, and an improved electrostatics and Lennard-Jones model, illustrating how energy functions can be considerably improved in their ability to describe large-scale energy landscapes by incorporating both small-molecule and macromolecule data. The energy function improves performance in a wide range of protein structure prediction challenges, including monomeric structure prediction, protein-protein and protein-ligand docking, protein sequence design, and prediction of the free energy changes by mutation, while reasonably recapitulating small-molecule thermodynamic properties.