Section: New Results

Docking Symmetrical Protein Structures

Many proteins form symmetrical complexes in which each structure contains two or more identical copies of the same sub-unit. We recently developed a novel polar Fourier docking algorithm called “Sam” for automatically assembling symmetrical protein complexes. A journal article describing the Sam algorithm has been published [19]. An article describing the results obtained when using Sam to dock several symmetrical protein complexes from the “CAPRI” docking experiment has also been published [13].