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Temperature dependent aggregation mechanism and pathway of lysozyme: By all atom and coarse grained molecular dynamics simulation. J Mol Graph Model 2020; 103:107816. [PMID: 33291026 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2020.107816] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2020] [Revised: 11/18/2020] [Accepted: 11/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Aggregation of protein causes various diseases including Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, and type II diabetes. It was found that aggregation of protein depends on many factors like temperature, pH, salt type, salt concentration, ionic strength, protein concentration, co solutes. Here we have tried to capture the aggregation mechanism and pathway of hen egg white lysozyme using molecular dynamics simulations at two different temperatures; 300 K and 340 K. Along with the all atom simulations to get the atomistic details of aggregation mechanism, we have used coarse grained simulation with MARTINI force field to monitor the aggregation for longer duration. Our results suggest that due to the aggregation, changes in the conformation of lysozyme are more at 340 K than at 300 K. The change in the conformation of the lysozyme at 300 K is mainly due to aggregation where at 340 K change in conformation of lysozyme is due to both aggregation and temperature. Also, a more compact aggregated system is formed at 340 K.
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Postic G, Janel N, Tufféry P, Moroy G. An information gain-based approach for evaluating protein structure models. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2020; 18:2228-2236. [PMID: 32837711 PMCID: PMC7431362 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2020] [Revised: 08/06/2020] [Accepted: 08/07/2020] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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For three decades now, knowledge-based scoring functions that operate through the "potential of mean force" (PMF) approach have continuously proven useful for studying protein structures. Although these statistical potentials are not to be confused with their physics-based counterparts of the same name-i.e. PMFs obtained by molecular dynamics simulations-their particular success in assessing the native-like character of protein structure predictions has lead authors to consider the computed scores as approximations of the free energy. However, this physical justification is a matter of controversy since the beginning. Alternative interpretations based on Bayes' theorem have been proposed, but the misleading formalism that invokes the inverse Boltzmann law remains recurrent in the literature. In this article, we present a conceptually new method for ranking protein structure models by quality, which is (i) independent of any physics-based explanation and (ii) relevant to statistics and to a general definition of information gain. The theoretical development described in this study provides new insights into how statistical PMFs work, in comparison with our approach. To prove the concept, we have built interatomic distance-dependent scoring functions, based on the former and new equations, and compared their performance on an independent benchmark of 60,000 protein structures. The results demonstrate that our new formalism outperforms statistical PMFs in evaluating the quality of protein structural decoys. Therefore, this original type of score offers a possibility to improve the success of statistical PMFs in the various fields of structural biology where they are applied. The open-source code is available for download at https://gitlab.rpbs.univ-paris-diderot.fr/src/ig-score.
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- Guillaume Postic
- Université de Paris, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, ERL U1133, Inserm, F-75013 Paris, France.,Université de Paris, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, F-75013 Paris, France.,Institut Français de Bioinformatique (IFB), UMS 3601-CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, Orsay, France.,Ressource Parisienne en Bioinformatique Structurale (RPBS), Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, F-75013 Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, ERL U1133, Inserm, F-75013 Paris, France.,Ressource Parisienne en Bioinformatique Structurale (RPBS), Paris, France
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- Université de Paris, BFA, UMR 8251, CNRS, ERL U1133, Inserm, F-75013 Paris, France
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Dynamical Behavior of β-Lactamases and Penicillin- Binding Proteins in Different Functional States and Its Potential Role in Evolution. ENTROPY 2019. [PMCID: PMC7514474 DOI: 10.3390/e21111130] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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β-Lactamases are enzymes produced by bacteria to hydrolyze β-lactam-based antibiotics, and pose serious threat to public health through related antibiotic resistance. Class A β-lactamases are structurally and functionally related to penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs). Despite the extensive studies of the structures, catalytic mechanisms and dynamics of both β-lactamases and PBPs, the potentially different dynamical behaviors of these proteins in different functional states still remain elusive in general. In this study, four evolutionarily related proteins, including TEM-1 and TOHO-1 as class A β-lactamases, PBP-A and DD-transpeptidase as two PBPs, are subjected to molecular dynamics simulations and various analyses to characterize their dynamical behaviors in different functional states. Penicillin G and its ring opening product serve as common ligands for these four proteins of interest. The dynamic analyses of overall structures, the active sites with penicillin G, and three catalytically important residues commonly shared by all four proteins reveal unexpected cross similarities between Class A β-lactamases and PBPs. These findings shed light on both the hidden relations among dynamical behaviors of these proteins and the functional and evolutionary relations among class A β-lactamases and PBPs.
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Rodrigues PG, Filho CAS, Attux R, Castellano G, Soriano DC. Space-time recurrences for functional connectivity evaluation and feature extraction in motor imagery brain-computer interfaces. Med Biol Eng Comput 2019; 57:1709-1725. [PMID: 31127535 DOI: 10.1007/s11517-019-01989-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/01/2018] [Accepted: 05/03/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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This work presents a classification performance comparison between different frameworks for functional connectivity evaluation and complex network feature extraction aiming to distinguish motor imagery classes in electroencephalography (EEG)-based brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). The analysis was performed in two online datasets: (1) a classical benchmark-the BCI competition IV dataset 2a-allowing a comparison with a representative set of strategies previously employed in this BCI paradigm and (2) a statistically representative dataset for signal processing technique comparisons over 52 subjects. Besides exploring three classical similarity measures-Pearson correlation, Spearman correlation, and mean phase coherence-this work also proposes a recurrence-based alternative for estimating EEG brain functional connectivity, which takes into account the recurrence density between pairwise electrodes over a time window. These strategies were followed by graph feature evaluation considering clustering coefficient, degree, betweenness centrality, and eigenvector centrality. The features were selected by Fisher's discriminating ratio and classification was performed by a least squares classifier in agreement with classical and online BCI processing strategies. The results revealed that the recurrence-based approach for functional connectivity evaluation was significantly better than the other frameworks, which is probably associated with the use of higher order statistics underlying the electrode joint probability estimation and a higher capability of capturing nonlinear inter-relations. There were no significant differences in performance among the evaluated graph features, but the eigenvector centrality was the best feature regarding processing time. Finally, the best ranked graph-based attributes were found in classical EEG motor cortex positions for the subjects with best performances, relating functional organization and motor activity. Graphical Abstract Evaluating functional connectivity based on Space-Time Recurrence Counting for motor imagery classification in brain-computer interfaces. Recurrences are evaluated between electrodes over a time window, and, after a density threshold, the electrodes adjacency matrix is stablish, leading to a graph. Graph-based topological measures are used for motor imagery classification.
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- Paula G Rodrigues
- Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences Center (CECS), Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil.
- Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN), Campinas, SP, Brazil.
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- Neurophysics Group, Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin (IFGW), University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil
- Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (FEEC), UNICAMP, Campinas, SP, Brazil
- Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Neurophysics Group, Institute of Physics Gleb Wataghin (IFGW), University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Campinas, SP, Brazil
- Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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- Engineering, Modeling and Applied Social Sciences Center (CECS), Federal University of ABC (UFABC), São Bernardo do Campo, SP, Brazil
- Brazilian Institute of Neuroscience and Neurotechnology (BRAINN), Campinas, SP, Brazil
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Karain WI. Detecting transitions in protein dynamics using a recurrence quantification analysis based bootstrap method. BMC Bioinformatics 2017; 18:525. [PMID: 29179670 PMCID: PMC5704401 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-017-1943-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2017] [Accepted: 11/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Background Proteins undergo conformational transitions over different time scales. These transitions are closely intertwined with the protein’s function. Numerous standard techniques such as principal component analysis are used to detect these transitions in molecular dynamics simulations. In this work, we add a new method that has the ability to detect transitions in dynamics based on the recurrences in the dynamical system. It combines bootstrapping and recurrence quantification analysis. We start from the assumption that a protein has a “baseline” recurrence structure over a given period of time. Any statistically significant deviation from this recurrence structure, as inferred from complexity measures provided by recurrence quantification analysis, is considered a transition in the dynamics of the protein. Results We apply this technique to a 132 ns long molecular dynamics simulation of the β-Lactamase Inhibitory Protein BLIP. We are able to detect conformational transitions in the nanosecond range in the recurrence dynamics of the BLIP protein during the simulation. The results compare favorably to those extracted using the principal component analysis technique. Conclusions The recurrence quantification analysis based bootstrap technique is able to detect transitions between different dynamics states for a protein over different time scales. It is not limited to linear dynamics regimes, and can be generalized to any time scale. It also has the potential to be used to cluster frames in molecular dynamics trajectories according to the nature of their recurrence dynamics. One shortcoming for this method is the need to have large enough time windows to insure good statistical quality for the recurrence complexity measures needed to detect the transitions.
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- Wael I Karain
- Department of Physics, Birzeit University, P.O.Box 14, Birzeit, Palestine.
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Detecting protein atom correlations using correlation of probability of recurrence. Proteins 2014; 82:2180-9. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.24574] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 03/29/2014] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Di Paola L, De Ruvo M, Paci P, Santoni D, Giuliani A. Protein Contact Networks: An Emerging Paradigm in Chemistry. Chem Rev 2012. [DOI: 10.1021/cr3002356] [Citation(s) in RCA: 173] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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- L. Di Paola
- Faculty of Engineering, Università CAMPUS BioMedico, Via A. del Portillo,
21, 00128 Roma, Italy
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- BioMathLab, CNR-Institute of Systems Analysis and Computer Science (IASI), viale Manzoni 30, 00185
Roma, Italy
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- Environment
and Health Department, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena
299, 00161, Roma, Italy
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Benson NC, Daggett V. A chemical group graph representation for efficient high-throughput analysis of atomistic protein simulations. J Bioinform Comput Biol 2012; 10:1250008. [PMID: 22809421 DOI: 10.1142/s0219720012500084] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Graphs are rapidly becoming a powerful and ubiquitous tool for the analysis of protein structure and for event detection in dynamical protein systems. Despite their rise in popularity, however, the graph representations employed to date have shared certain features and parameters that have not been thoroughly investigated. Here, we examine and compare variations on the construction of graph nodes and graph edges. We propose a graph representation based on chemical groups of similar atoms within a protein rather than residues or secondary structure and find that even very simple analyses using this representation form a powerful event detection system with significant advantages over residue-based graph representations. We additionally compare graph edges based on probability of contact to graph edges based on contact strength and analyses of the entire graph structure to an alternative and more computationally tractable node-based analysis. We develop the simplest useful technique for analyzing protein simulations based on these comparisons and use it to shed light on the speed with which static protein structures adjust to a solvated environment at room temperature in simulation.
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- Noah C Benson
- Division of Biomedical and Health Informatics, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195-7240, USA.
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Di Paola L, Paci P, Santoni D, De Ruvo M, Giuliani A. Proteins as Sponges: A Statistical Journey along Protein Structure Organization Principles. J Chem Inf Model 2012; 52:474-82. [DOI: 10.1021/ci2005127] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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- Luisa Di Paola
- Università Campus Biomedico,
via Alvaro del Portillo 21, 00128 Rome, Italy
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- CNR-Institute of Systems Analysis
and Computer Science (IASI), BioMathLab, viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Rome,
Italy
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- CNR-Institute of Systems
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and Computer Science (IASI), viale Manzoni 30, 00185 Rome, Italy
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- Università Campus Biomedico,
via Alvaro del Portillo 21, 00128 Rome, Italy
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- Department of Environment and
Health, Istituto Superiore di Sanità, Viale Regina Elena 299,
00161 Rome, Italy
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González-Díaz H, Muíño L, Anadón AM, Romaris F, Prado-Prado FJ, Munteanu CR, Dorado J, Sierra AP, Mezo M, González-Warleta M, Gárate T, Ubeira FM. MISS-Prot: web server for self/non-self discrimination of protein residue networks in parasites; theory and experiments in Fasciola peptides and Anisakis allergens. MOLECULAR BIOSYSTEMS 2011; 7:1938-55. [PMID: 21468430 DOI: 10.1039/c1mb05069a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Infections caused by human parasites (HPs) affect the poorest 500 million people worldwide but chemotherapy has become expensive, toxic, and/or less effective due to drug resistance. On the other hand, many 3D structures in Protein Data Bank (PDB) remain without function annotation. We need theoretical models to quickly predict biologically relevant Parasite Self Proteins (PSP), which are expressed differentially in a given parasite and are dissimilar to proteins expressed in other parasites and have a high probability to become new vaccines (unique sequence) or drug targets (unique 3D structure). We present herein a model for PSPs in eight different HPs (Ascaris, Entamoeba, Fasciola, Giardia, Leishmania, Plasmodium, Trypanosoma, and Toxoplasma) with 90% accuracy for 15 341 training and validation cases. The model combines protein residue networks, Markov Chain Models (MCM) and Artificial Neural Networks (ANN). The input parameters are the spectral moments of the Markov transition matrix for electrostatic interactions associated with the protein residue complex network calculated with the MARCH-INSIDE software. We implemented this model in a new web-server called MISS-Prot (MARCH-INSIDE Scores for Self-Proteins). MISS-Prot was programmed using PHP/HTML/Python and MARCH-INSIDE routines and is freely available at: . This server is easy to use by non-experts in Bioinformatics who can carry out automatic online upload and prediction with 3D structures deposited at PDB (mode 1). We can also study outcomes of Peptide Mass Fingerprinting (PMFs) and MS/MS for query proteins with unknown 3D structures (mode 2). We illustrated the use of MISS-Prot in experimental and/or theoretical studies of peptides from Fasciola hepatica cathepsin proteases or present on 10 Anisakis simplex allergens (Ani s 1 to Ani s 10). In doing so, we combined electrophoresis (1DE), MALDI-TOF Mass Spectroscopy, and MASCOT to seek sequences, Molecular Mechanics + Molecular Dynamics (MM/MD) to generate 3D structures and MISS-Prot to predict PSP scores. MISS-Prot also allows the prediction of PSP proteins in 16 additional species including parasite hosts, fungi pathogens, disease transmission vectors, and biotechnologically relevant organisms.
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- Humberto González-Díaz
- Department of Microbiology & Parasitology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Santiago de Compostela, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
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Rodriguez-Soca Y, Munteanu CR, Dorado J, Rabuñal J, Pazos A, González-Díaz H. Plasmod-PPI: A web-server predicting complex biopolymer targets in plasmodium with entropy measures of protein–protein interactions. POLYMER 2010. [DOI: 10.1016/j.polymer.2009.11.029] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Yang JY, Peng ZL, Yu ZG, Zhang RJ, Anh V, Wang D. Prediction of protein structural classes by recurrence quantification analysis based on chaos game representation. J Theor Biol 2009; 257:618-26. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.12.027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/21/2008] [Revised: 11/07/2008] [Accepted: 12/19/2008] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Response to András Szilágyi's Commentary. Proteins 2008. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.22031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Yang Y, Tantoso E, Li KB. Remote protein homology detection using recurrence quantification analysis and amino acid physicochemical properties. J Theor Biol 2008; 252:145-54. [PMID: 18342336 DOI: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2008.01.028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2007] [Revised: 11/29/2007] [Accepted: 01/26/2008] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Remote homology detection refers to the detection of structure homology in evolutionarily related proteins with low sequence similarity. Supervised learning algorithms such as support vector machine (SVM) are currently the most accurate methods. In most of these SVM-based methods, efforts have been dedicated to developing new kernels to better use the pairwise alignment scores or sequence profiles. Moreover, amino acids' physicochemical properties are not generally used in the feature representation of protein sequences. In this article, we present a remote homology detection method that incorporates two novel features: (1) a protein's primary sequence is represented using amino acid's physicochemical properties and (2) the similarity between two proteins is measured using recurrence quantification analysis (RQA). An optimization scheme was developed to select different amino acid indices (up to 10 for a protein family) that are best to characterize the given protein family. The selected amino acid indices may enable us to draw better biological explanation of the protein family classification problem than using other alignment-based methods. An SVM-based classifier will then work on the space described by the RQA metrics. The classification scheme is named as SVM-RQA. Experiments at the superfamily level of the SCOP1.53 dataset show that, without using alignment or sequence profile information, the features generated from amino acid indices are able to produce results that are comparable to those obtained by the published state-of-the-art SVM kernels. In the future, better prediction accuracies can be expected by combining the alignment-based features with our amino acids property-based features. Supplementary information including the raw dataset, the best-performing amino acid indices for each protein family and the computed RQA metrics for all protein sequences can be downloaded from http://ym151113.ym.edu.tw/svm-rqa.
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- Yuchen Yang
- Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology, 61 Biopolis Drive, Singapore 138673, Singapore
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Mitra J, Mundra P, Kulkarni BD, Jayaraman VK. Using Recurrence Quantification Analysis Descriptors for Protein Sequence Classification with Support Vector Machines. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2007; 25:289-98. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2007.10507177] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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Zbilut JP, Chua GH, Krishnan A, Bossa C, Rother K, Webber CL, Giuliani A. A topologically related singularity suggests a maximum preferred size for protein domains. Proteins 2007; 66:621-9. [PMID: 17154417 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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A variety of protein physicochemical as well as topological properties, demonstrate a scaling behavior relative to chain length. Many of the scalings can be modeled as a power law which is qualitatively similar across the examples. In this article, we suggest a rational explanation to these observations on the basis of both protein connectivity and hydrophobic constraints of residues compactness relative to surface volume. Unexpectedly, in an examination of these relationships, a singularity was shown to exist near 255-270 residues length, and may be associated with an upper limit for domain size. Evaluation of related G-factor data points to a wide range of conformational plasticity near this point. In addition to its theoretical importance, we show by an application of CASP experimental and predicted structures, that the scaling is a practical filter for protein structure prediction.
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- Joseph P Zbilut
- Department of Molecular Biophysics and Physiology, Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois 60612, USA.
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Furman MD, Simonotto JD, Beaver TM, Spano ML, Ditto WL. Using recurrence quantification analysis determinism for noise removal in cardiac optical mapping. IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 2006; 53:767-70. [PMID: 16602587 DOI: 10.1109/tbme.2006.870195] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Selecting signal processing parameters in optical imaging by utilizing the change in Determinism, a measure introduced in Recurrence Quantification Analysis, provides a novel method using the change in residual noise Determinism for improving noise quantification and removal across signals exhibiting disparate underlying tissue pathologies. The method illustrates an improved process for selecting filtering parameters and how using measured signal-to-noise ratio alone can lead to improper parameter selection.
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- Michael D Furman
- Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611-6161, USA.
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Cubellis MV, Cailliez F, Lovell SC. Secondary structure assignment that accurately reflects physical and evolutionary characteristics. BMC Bioinformatics 2005; 6 Suppl 4:S8. [PMID: 16351757 PMCID: PMC1866377 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-s4-s8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Secondary structure is used in hierarchical classification of protein structures, identification of protein features, such as helix caps and loops, for fold recognition, and as a precursor to ab initio structure prediction. There are several methods available for assigning secondary structure if the three-dimensional structure of the protein is known. Unfortunately they differ in their definitions, particularly in the exact positions of the termini. Additionally, most existing methods rely on hydrogen bonding, which means that important secondary structural classes, such as isolated beta-strands and poly-proline helices cannot be identified as they do not have characteristic hydrogen-bonding patterns. For this reason we have developed a more accurate method for assigning secondary structure based on main chain geometry, which also allows a more comprehensive assignment of secondary structure. RESULTS We define secondary structure based on a number of geometric parameters. Helices are defined based on whether they fit inside an imaginary cylinder: residues must be within the correct radius of a central axis. Different types of helices (alpha, 3(10) or pi) are assigned on the basis of the angle between successive peptide bonds. beta-strands are assigned based on backbone dihedrals and with alternating peptide bonds. Thus hydrogen bonding is not required and beta-strands can be within a parallel sheet, antiparallel sheet, or can be isolated. Poly-proline helices are defined similarly, although with three-fold symmetry. CONCLUSION We find that our method better assigns secondary structure than existing methods. Specifically, we find that comparing our methods with those of others, amino-acid trends at helix caps are stronger, secondary structural elements less likely to be concatenated together and secondary structure guided sequence alignment is improved. We conclude, therefore, that secondary structure assignments using our method better reflects physical and evolutionary characteristics of proteins. The program is available from http://www.bioinf.man.ac.uk/~lovell/segno.shtml.
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- Maria Vittoria Cubellis
- Biochemistry Dept, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
- Dipartimento di Biologia Strutturale e Funzionale, Napoli, Italy
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- Biochemistry Dept, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
- Institut de Biologie Physico-Chimique, Paris, France
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- Biochemistry Dept, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 1GA, UK
- Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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Majumdar I, Krishna SS, Grishin NV. PALSSE: a program to delineate linear secondary structural elements from protein structures. BMC Bioinformatics 2005; 6:202. [PMID: 16095538 PMCID: PMC1190160 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2105-6-202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2005] [Accepted: 08/11/2005] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
Abstract
Background The majority of residues in protein structures are involved in the formation of α-helices and β-strands. These distinctive secondary structure patterns can be used to represent a protein for visual inspection and in vector-based protein structure comparison. Success of such structural comparison methods depends crucially on the accurate identification and delineation of secondary structure elements. Results We have developed a method PALSSE (Predictive Assignment of Linear Secondary Structure Elements) that delineates secondary structure elements (SSEs) from protein Cα coordinates and specifically addresses the requirements of vector-based protein similarity searches. Our program identifies two types of secondary structures: helix and β-strand, typically those that can be well approximated by vectors. In contrast to traditional secondary structure algorithms, which identify a secondary structure state for every residue in a protein chain, our program attributes residues to linear SSEs. Consecutive elements may overlap, thus allowing residues located at the overlapping region to have more than one secondary structure type. Conclusion PALSSE is predictive in nature and can assign about 80% of the protein chain to SSEs as compared to 53% by DSSP and 57% by P-SEA. Such a generous assignment ensures almost every residue is part of an element and is used in structural comparisons. Our results are in agreement with human judgment and DSSP. The method is robust to coordinate errors and can be used to define SSEs even in poorly refined and low-resolution structures. The program and results are available at .
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- Indraneel Majumdar
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd. Dallas, TX 75390, USA
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd., Dallas, TX 75390, USA
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Giuliani A, Benigni R, Zbilut JP, Webber CL, Sirabella P, Colosimo A. Nonlinear signal analysis methods in the elucidation of protein sequence-structure relationships. Chem Rev 2002; 102:1471-92. [PMID: 11996541 DOI: 10.1021/cr0101499] [Citation(s) in RCA: 93] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- Alessandro Giuliani
- Istituto Superiore di Sanità, TCE Laboratory, Viale Regina Elena 299, 00161 Rome, Italy.
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