Comprehensive computational analysis of the SRK-SP11 molecular interaction underlying self-incompatibility in Brassicaceae using improved structure prediction for cysteine-rich proteins.

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In Brassicaceae, this process is regulated by the formation of a complex between the pistil determinant S receptor kinase (SRK) and the pollen determinant S-locus protein 11 (SP11, also known as S-locus cysteine-rich protein, SCR). In our previous study, we used the crystal structures of two eSRK-SP11 complexes in Brassica rapa S8 and S9 haplotypes and nine computationally predicted complex models to demonstrate that only the SRK ectodomain (eSRK) and SP11 pairs derived from the same S haplotype exhibit high binding free energy. However, predicting the eSRK-SP11 complex structures for the other 100 + S haplotypes and genera remains difficult because of SP11 polymorphism in sequence and structure. Although protein structure prediction using AlphaFold2 exhibits considerably high accuracy for most protein monomers and complexes, 46% of the predicted SP11 structures that we tested showed < 75 mean per-residue confidence score (pLDDT). Here, we demonstrate that the use of curated multiple sequence alignment (MSA) for cysteine-rich proteins significantly improved model accuracy for SP11 and eSRK-SP11 complexes. Additionally, we calculated the binding free energies of the predicted eSRK-SP11 complexes using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and observed that some Arabidopsis haplotypes formed a binding mode that was critically different from that of B. rapa S8 and S9. Thus, our computational results provide insights into the haplotype-specific eSRK-SP11 binding modes in Brassicaceae at the residue level. 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