PRODIGY is also available as a web service @ wenmr.science.uu.nl/prodigy
pip install prodigy-prot
If you want to develop PRODIGY, check DEVELOPMENT for more details.
prodigy <pdb file> [--selection <chain1><chain2>]To get a list of all the possible options.
$ prodigy --help
usage: prodigy [-h] [--distance-cutoff DISTANCE_CUTOFF] [--acc-threshold ACC_THRESHOLD] [--temperature TEMPERATURE]
[--contact_list] [--pymol_selection] [-q] [-V] [--selection A B [A,B C ...]]
structf
Binding affinity predictor based on Intermolecular Contacts (ICs).
Anna Vangone and Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin,
Contacts-based prediction of binding affinity in protein-protein complexes.
eLife (2015)
positional arguments:
structf Structure to analyse in PDB or mmCIF format
options:
-h, --help show this help message and exit
--distance-cutoff DISTANCE_CUTOFF
Distance cutoff to calculate ICs
--acc-threshold ACC_THRESHOLD
Accessibility threshold for BSA analysis
--temperature TEMPERATURE
Temperature (C) for Kd prediction
--contact_list Output a list of contacts
--pymol_selection Output a script to highlight the interface (pymol)
-q, --quiet Outputs only the predicted affinity value
-V, --version Print the version and exit.
Selection Options:
By default, all intermolecular contacts are taken into consideration,
a molecule being defined as an isolated group of amino acids sharing
a common chain identifier. In specific cases, for example
antibody-antigen complexes, some chains should be considered as a
single molecule.
Use the --selection option to provide collections of chains that should
be considered for the calculation. Separate by a space the chains that
are to be considered _different_ molecules. Use commas to include multiple
chains as part of a single group:
--selection A B => Contacts calculated (only) between chains A and B.
--selection A,B C => Contacts calculated (only) between chains A and C; and B and C.
--selection A B C => Contacts calculated (only) between chains A and B; B and C; and A and C.
--selection A B [A,B C ...]Download the PDB 3BZD and run PRODIGY on it.
$ curl -o 3bzd.pdb https://files.rcsb.org/download/3BZD.pdb
$ prodigy 3bzd.pdb
[+] Reading structure file: /Users/rvhonorato/dbg/3bzd.pdb
[+] Parsed structure file 3bzd (2 chains, 343 residues)
[+] No. of intermolecular contacts: 51
[+] No. of charged-charged contacts: 4
[+] No. of charged-polar contacts: 7
[+] No. of charged-apolar contacts: 6
[+] No. of polar-polar contacts: 7
[+] No. of apolar-polar contacts: 15
[+] No. of apolar-apolar contacts: 12
[+] Percentage of apolar NIS residues: 29.48
[+] Percentage of charged NIS residues: 29.48
[++] Predicted binding affinity (kcal.mol-1): -9.4
[++] Predicted dissociation constant (M) at 25.0˚C: 1.3e-07Details of the binding affinity predictor implemented in PRODIGY can be found at 10.7554/elife.07454
If our tool is useful to you, please cite PRODIGY in your publications:
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Xue L, Rodrigues J, Kastritis P, Bonvin A.M.J.J, Vangone A.: PRODIGY: a web server for predicting the binding affinity of protein-protein complexes. Bioinformatics (2016) (10.1093/bioinformatics/btw514)
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Anna Vangone and Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin: Contacts-based prediction of binding affinity in protein-protein complexes. eLife, e07454 (2015) (10.7554/eLife.07454)
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Panagiotis L. Kastritis , João P.G.L.M. Rodrigues, Gert E. Folkers, Rolf Boelens, Alexandre M.J.J. Bonvin: Proteins Feel More Than They See: Fine-Tuning of Binding Affinity by Properties of the Non-Interacting Surface. Journal of Molecular Biology, 14, 2632–2652 (2014). (10.1016/j.jmb.2014.04.017)
For questions about PRODIGY usage, please reach out the team at ask.bioexcel.eu
The scripts rely on Biopython to validate the PDB structures and calculate interatomic distances. freesasa, with the parameter set used in NACCESS (Chothia, 1976), is also required for calculating the buried surface area.
DISCLAIMER: given the different software to calculate solvent accessiblity, predicted values might differ (very slightly) from those published in the reference implementations. The correlation of the actual atomic accessibilities is over 0.99, so we expect these differences to be very minor.
