Background: Homology modeling is an important technique for making use of the rapidly increasing number of protein sequences in the absence of structural information. The major problems in such modeling, once the alignment has been made, concern the positions of loops and the orientations of sidechains. Although progress has been made in recent years for sidechain prediction, current methods appear to have a limit on the order of 70 % in their accuracy. It is important to have an understanding of this limitation, which for energy-based methods could arise from inaccuracies of the potential function. Results: A test of the CHARMM function for sidechain prediction was performed. To eliminate the multiple-residue search problem, the minimum energy positions of individual sidechains in ten proteins were calculated in the presence of all other sidechains in their crystal orientations. This test provides a necessary condition that any energy function useful for sidechain placement must satisfy. For c 1 c 2 rotations, the accuracies were 77.4 % and 89.5%, respectively, and in the presence of crystal waters were 86.5 % and 94.9%, respectively. If there was an error, the crystal structure usually corresponded to an alternative local minimum on the calculated energy map. Prediction accuracy correlated with the size of the energy gap between primary and secondary minima. Conclusions: The results indicate that the errors in current sidechain prediction schemes cannot be attributed to the potential energy function per se. The test used here establishes a necessary condition that any proposed energy-based sidechain prediction method, as well as many statistically based methods, must satisfy.
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