Structure Tools and Visualization†
Gary Van Domselaar University of Alberta [email protected]
†Slides Adapted from Michel Dumontier, Blueprint Initiative
Lecture 3.4 1 Visualization & Communication
Visualization tools allow us to • see 3D structure data • communicate features about 3-D structures to colleagues • illustrate biological processes (catalytic/binding) • educate laypersons about structural biology
Go beyond Rasmol & communicate other structural features • surface shape – show the surface, transparent over a backbone • hydrophobicity / charge – show the binding surfaces or charge complementarity • mutations – making a simple model (e.g. 1 amino acid change)
Lecture 3.4 2 In this lecture we introduce • Rasmol and CHIME – Good introductory packages for biomolecule visualization • Cn3D for Structure Annotation – Good all around viewer that uses OpenGL graphics – Good annotation engine for exchanging information about 3D structure • Swiss PDB Viewer (Deep View) – Make molecular surfaces – Align multiple proteins – Apply scoring functions – Simple, fast modeling including site-directed mutagenesis – Complex modeling including loop rebuilding • PyMOL – Python based, can be used for scripting
Lecture 3.4 3 Rasmol & CHIME
• Developed by Roger Sayle • Open source, binaries available – http://openrasmol.org/ • Widely used, simple to use (menus) for simple operations • Complex operations require command-line interface
Lecture 3.4 4 Rasmol
• Developed by Roger Sayle • Open source, binaries available – http://openrasmol.org/ • Widely used, simple to use (menus) for simple operations • Complex operations require command-line interface
Lecture 3.4 5 Getting Rasmol Structure Files • Uses PDB files: http://www.rcsb.org/
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Lecture 3.4 6 Working With the PDB File
“select cys115.cb”
“select lys116”
Lecture 3.4 7 Hen egg-white lysozyme and tri-N-acetylchitotriose
Lecture 3.4 8 Rasmol Help
• Quick Reference Card: – http://info.bio.cmu.edu/Courses/BiochemMols/RasFrames/REFCARD.PDF • Rasmol Manual – http://openrasmol.org/doc/rasmol.html • Tutorials: – http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/rastut.htm • Gallery: – http://www.umass.edu/microbio/rasmol/galmz.htm
Lecture 3.4 9 CHIME
• CHIME: “Chemical mIME” • A free molecular viewer web browser plugin based on Rasmol • Developed by MDL Information Systems Inc: – http://www.mdl/com/ • Improves on Rasmol: – More commands – Hypertext button-controlled scripting – Animations
Lecture 3.4 10 CHIME
• What you need to run CHIME: – Netscape / Mozilla / Internet Explorer – Windows or Macintosh – A web page designed to use CHIME – A PDB file
Lecture 3.4 11 CHIME and Protein Explorer • Protein Explorer: A website that works with CHIME to help you visualize your structures • http://molvis.sdsc.edu/protexpl/frntdoor.htm
Lecture 3.4 12 Cn3D
• Developed by the NCBI • Open source, binaries available http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/ • Fast OpenGL Graphics • Annotation Engine – Lets you mark up a protein at the residue level • Can fetch a structure over the Internet • Can display protein “movies” – NMR ensembles – Protein folding trajectories
Lecture 3.4 13 Getting Cn3D Structure Files
• Uses MMDB files • Entrez (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov) tightly coupled with MMDB structure database • Retrieve using – MMDB identifier – PDB identifer – Conserved Domain Database – BLAST search – PubMed query – Text search
Lecture 3.4 14 Hen egg-white lysozyme and tri-N-acetylchitotriose
Lecture 3.4 15 ASN.1 Structure File (ascii)
MMDB-ID PDB ID History Publications Chemical Graph - Molecule Graph - taxonomy - residue sequence - inter residue bonds - heterogens - solvent - Inter-molecule bonds
Lecture 3.4 - Annotation 16 - Camera Settings Global Style Settings
Lecture 3.4 17 Create New Annotation Disulfide Cysteines
1. Select Residues 2. Menu>Style>Annotate 3. Create New Annotation 4. Give Name and Edit Style
Lecture 3.4 18 Edit Style Options
Lecture 3.4 19 Selective Annotation of Cysteine Disulfide Bridges
Lecture 3.4 20 Annotation Menu
Turn On/Off – Show/Hide selected annotation Move Up/Down – Change priority Show – Show annotation and affected residues Edit – Edit an existing annotation Move – Move the annotation to selected residues Delete – Delete the Annotation
Lecture 3.4 21 Shortcuts
Rendering: SpaceFill Rendering: Ball and Stick Coloring: Rainbow Coloring: Hydrophobicity Lecture 3.4 22 Another Salient Feature
Show/Hide>Select by distance
Lecture 3.4 23 Imports
• Import sequences – BLAST alignments • Import structures Structural Superposition Lectur–e 3.4 24 BLAST
• Create alignments between sequences – In this case, an alignment between the structure sequence and the natural sequence reveals missing N and C termini residues and a loop region, not resolved in structure.
Lecture 3.4 25 Conserved Domain Alignments
Lecture 3.4 26 Folding Simulations
Lecture 3.4 27 NMR Solution Structures
Lecture 3.4 28 Finishing Your Work
• Save – Annotations – Camera Settings • Export – PNG image
Lecture 3.4 29 Other Cn3D Resources
• Application Help • Online Help
Lecture 3.4 30 Swiss PDV Viewer at a Glance
• PDB structure viewer with structure utilities • Superimposition to compare proteins and their components such as active/binding sites • Measure angles, distances between atoms • Manual or automated (Swiss-Model) homology modeling including loop modeling • Threading (Fold recognition) • Mutations and Energy minimization • Electron density map reading and model building (crystallography data) • Interface to POV-Ray rendering software
Lecture 3.4 31 Main Interface
• Tons of menu options reasonably well categorized • Button bar for image manipulation (center, zoom, move, rotate) and some structure measurement and mutation tools • Layers window to select from multiple layers Lecture 3.4 32 Control Panel
• Select – Individual Residues (one or more) – All Residues – Chains – Secondary Structure • Show – Backbone – Side chains – Labels – Molecular surface (VDW) – Ribbon Cartoons (Helices/Strands) – Colors (specify backbone +/- sidechain, labels, etc)
Lecture 3.4 33 Alignment and Ramachandran Plot
• Alignment Window shows alignment of sequences to one another (structural superposition, threading / homology modelling) • Ramachandran plot showing Phi-Psi angles of selected residues. Can move individual residues to new Phi-Psi angles.
Lecture 3.4 34 Molecular Surfaces
Lecture 3.4 35 Electrostatic Potentials
• Useful for evaluating the effects of a potential mutation • Analysis of binding site
Lecture 3.4 36 SPDBV Home Page • http://expasy.org/spdbv
Lecture 3.4 37 •http://www.usm.maine.edu/~rhodes/SPVTut/index.html
Lecture 3.4 38 Persistence of Vision (POV) RAY Visualization
• Ray tracing occurs from the camera to the scene • Specify – Camera location – Light sources – Objects – Surface textures – Atmospheric media (fog, haze, or fire)
Lecture 3.4 39 POV RAY
http://www.povray.org/documentation
Lecture 3.4 40 PovRay Molecules...
• Armand Tepper ‘s Energy minimized Yeast Cu-metallothionein from an averaged NMR structure. 6 copper atoms are in the reddish metal texture and the sulfurs of the coordinating cysteines appear in yellow. This picture features the new smoother ribbon feature (quality 2) implemented in SPDBV3.6b2. The surface is at detail level 3. • http://wwwchem.leidenuniv.nl/metprot/armand
Lecture 3.4 41 Lecture 3.4 42 POV Ray scene generators
• Swiss PDB Viewer can save file as POV scene • PDB to POV converters available – MolPov (windows) http://www.chem.ufl.edu/~der/ der_pov2.htm – PPOVIT (PERL) http://huron.cem.msu.edu/~rstc/ ppovit/
Lecture 3.4 43 PyMOL
• Set of structure tools built on top of Python • Supports all Standard Features • Extensible, Scriptable • Native Ray Tracer • Freely Available: – http://pymol.sourceforge.net/
Lecture 3.4 44 PyMOL
• Set of structure tools built on top of Python • Supports all Standard Features • Extensible, Scriptable • Native Ray Tracer • Freely Available: – http://pymol.sourceforge.net/
Lecture 3.4 45 PyMOL External GUI
• Command line interface • Standard menu bar • Some Handy Buttons
Lecture 3.4 46 PyMOL External GUI
Named Groups Panel
VIEWING WINDOW
Mouse Bindings
Command Line Movie Controls
Lecture 3.4 47 PyMOL Actions Menu (A)
Named Groups Panel
VIEWING WINDOW
Mouse Bindings
Command Line Movie Controls
Lecture 3.4 48 PyMOL Show Menu (S)
Named Groups Panel
VIEWING WINDOW
Mouse Bindings
Command Line Movie Controls
Lecture 3.4 49 PyMOL Hide Menu (S)
Named Groups Panel
VIEWING WINDOW
Mouse Bindings
Command Line Movie Controls
Lecture 3.4 50 PyMOL Labels Menu (L)
Named Groups Panel
VIEWING WINDOW
Mouse Bindings
Command Line Movie Controls
Lecture 3.4 51 PyMOL Color Menu (C)
Named Groups Panel
VIEWING WINDOW
Mouse Bindings
Command Line Movie Controls
Lecture 3.4 52 Hen egg-white lysozyme and tri-N-acetylchitotriose
Lecture 3.4 53 Conclusions
• Several of the more powerful structure tools with visualization and structure manipulation features are freely available – Rasmol, Cn3D, Swiss PDB Viewer, PyMOL • Mark up your structures to convey important and useful information • Ray Trace output scenes for best rendering and artistic flash
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