Authors
Gowrish Rajagopal, Søren C Spina, Joseph S Bailey, Blaise R Kimmel
Published in
bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology. Jul 20, 2026. Epub Jul 20, 2026.
Abstract
Computational modeling provides geometric insight into protein-protein interactions without requiring the resources of experimentation. However, reliability can be hindered when modeling proteins with distinctive features, such as antibodies, that use flexible, polar-rich loops to bind antigens. We developed ProteinDock , a physics-based tool that can be used in combination with leading modeling programs to improve the reliability of protein-protein docking; this work provides a case study of antibody-antigen interfaces. ProteinDock was layered onto Rosetta for docking unbound experimentally determined structures, and when evaluated on Docking Benchmark Set 5.5, generated CAPRI acceptable-quality or better for 80.2% of targets, an improvement of 32.8 percentage points over vanilla Rosetta's 47.4% on the same dataset. To improve protein-protein prediction reliability from sequence inputs, we demonstrate that a truncated version of ProteinDock can be used to choose the optimal prediction among outputs from multiple deep learning-based tools. We show that this strategy is a computationally efficient alternative to increasing the seed quantity for deep-learning predictions. A graphical user interface for layering ProteinDock has been created and is available at https://github.com/Kimmel-Lab/proteindock and https://proteindock.com/ .
PMID:
42539256
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