Abstract
Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) experiments provide distances between nearby atoms of a protein molecule. The corresponding structure determination problem is to determine the 3D protein structure by exploiting such distances. We present a new order on the atoms of the protein, based on information from the chemistry of proteins and NMR experiments, which allows us to formulate the problem as a combinatorial search. Additionally, this order tells us what kind of NMR distance information is crucial to understand the cardinality of the solution set of the problem and its computational complexity.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 91-104 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| Journal | Discrete Applied Mathematics |
| Volume | 256 |
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| Publication status | Published - 15 Mar 2019 |
Keywords
- Distance geometry
- Molecular structure
- Nuclear magnetic resonance
- Vertex orders