Go-and-Back method: effective estimation of the hidden motion of proteins from single-molecule time series

J Chem Phys. 2011 Apr 7;134(13):135104. doi: 10.1063/1.3574396.

Abstract

We present an effective method for estimating the motion of proteins from the motion of attached probe particles in single-molecule experiments. The framework naturally incorporates Langevin dynamics to compute the most probable trajectory of the protein. By using a perturbation expansion technique, we achieve computational costs more than 3 orders of magnitude smaller than the conventional gradient descent method without loss of simplicity in the computation algorithm. We present illustrative applications of the method using simple models of single-molecule experiments and confirm that the proposed method yields reasonable and stable estimates of the hidden motion in a highly efficient manner.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Algorithms
  • Computer Simulation
  • Kinetics
  • Models, Chemical
  • Motion*
  • Probability
  • Proteins / chemistry*

Substances

  • Proteins