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Wang B, Lei X, Tian W, Perez-Rathke A, Tseng YY, Liang J. Structure-based pathogenicity relationship identifier for predicting effects of single missense variants and discovery of higher-order cancer susceptibility clusters of mutations. Brief Bioinform 2023; 24:bbad206. [PMID: 37332013 PMCID: PMC10359089 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbad206] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/01/2023] [Revised: 04/19/2023] [Accepted: 05/13/2023] [Indexed: 06/20/2023] Open
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We report the structure-based pathogenicity relationship identifier (SPRI), a novel computational tool for accurate evaluation of pathological effects of missense single mutations and prediction of higher-order spatially organized units of mutational clusters. SPRI can effectively extract properties determining pathogenicity encoded in protein structures, and can identify deleterious missense mutations of germ line origin associated with Mendelian diseases, as well as mutations of somatic origin associated with cancer drivers. It compares favorably to other methods in predicting deleterious mutations. Furthermore, SPRI can discover spatially organized pathogenic higher-order spatial clusters (patHOS) of deleterious mutations, including those of low recurrence, and can be used for discovery of candidate cancer driver genes and driver mutations. We further demonstrate that SPRI can take advantage of AlphaFold2 predicted structures and can be deployed for saturation mutation analysis of the whole human proteome.
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- Boshen Wang
- Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, Richard and Loan Hill, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, W103 Suite, 820 S Wood St, 60612 IL, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, Richard and Loan Hill, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, W103 Suite, 820 S Wood St, 60612 IL, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, Richard and Loan Hill, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, W103 Suite, 820 S Wood St, 60612 IL, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, Richard and Loan Hill, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, W103 Suite, 820 S Wood St, 60612 IL, USA
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- Center for Molecular Medicine and Genetics, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Department, School of Medicine, Wayne State University, 540 E. Canfield Avenue, 48201MI, USA
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- Center for Bioinformatics and Quantitative Biology, Richard and Loan Hill, Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, W103 Suite, 820 S Wood St, 60612 IL, USA
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Ye B, Wang B, Liang J. Predicting Pathology of Missense Mutations through Protein-Specific Evolutionary Pattern. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2023; 2023:1-4. [PMID: 38082878 PMCID: PMC10984725 DOI: 10.1109/embc40787.2023.10339993] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2023]
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Missense mutations, which are single base pair genetic alternation resulting in a different amino acid, are among the most common occurring variants in exon regions of the human genome and may lead to diseases. Thus to assess the effects of missense mutations, it is essential to investigate the evolutionary history of the protein under selection pressures. In this study, we employ a continuous-time Markov model to investigate the evolutionary patterns in protein sequences and a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method to estimate the substitution rates for protein of interest, from which we obtain scoring matrices. Specifically, we examined the evolutionary patterns of protein sequences containing missense mutations using a species tree to define the phylogeny of the protein of interest. We thoroughly studied the evolutionary pattern of human muscle glycogen phosphorylase containing 127 known missense mutations, and identified characteristic evolutionary patterns in 63 proteins with 2,238 missense mutations, including both deleterious and neutral effects. Our results show that the estimated protein-specific evolutionary pattern-based scoring matrices (PSM) lead to higher sensitivity in detecting the pathological effects of missense mutations, compared to the general evolutionary pattern-based scoring matrix of Blosum62 (BL62) matrix. By incorporating PSM, the performance of a recently released structure-based model SPRI for evaluating missense mutations is further improved.
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Misiura M, Shroff R, Thyer R, Kolomeisky AB. DLPacker: Deep learning for prediction of amino acid side chain conformations in proteins. Proteins 2022; 90:1278-1290. [PMID: 35122328 DOI: 10.1002/prot.26311] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2021] [Revised: 12/03/2021] [Accepted: 12/07/2021] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Prediction of side chain conformations of amino acids in proteins (also termed "packing") is an important and challenging part of protein structure prediction with many interesting applications in protein design. A variety of methods for packing have been developed but more accurate ones are still needed. Machine learning (ML) methods have recently become a powerful tool for solving various problems in diverse areas of science, including structural biology. In this study, we evaluate the potential of deep neural networks (DNNs) for prediction of amino acid side chain conformations. We formulate the problem as image-to-image transformation and train a U-net style DNN to solve the problem. We show that our method outperforms other physics-based methods by a significant margin: reconstruction RMSDs for most amino acids are about 20% smaller compared to SCWRL4 and Rosetta Packer with RMSDs for bulky hydrophobic amino acids Phe, Tyr, and Trp being up to 50% smaller.
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- Mikita Misiura
- Department of Chemistry, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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- Department of Chemistry, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, Center for Theoretical Biological Physics, Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA
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Tan YL, Feng CJ, Jin L, Shi YZ, Zhang W, Tan ZJ. What is the best reference state for building statistical potentials in RNA 3D structure evaluation? RNA (NEW YORK, N.Y.) 2019; 25:793-812. [PMID: 30996105 PMCID: PMC6573789 DOI: 10.1261/rna.069872.118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/08/2018] [Accepted: 04/06/2019] [Indexed: 05/14/2023]
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Knowledge-based statistical potentials have been shown to be efficient in protein structure evaluation/prediction, and the core difference between various statistical potentials is attributed to the choice of reference states. However, for RNA 3D structure evaluation, a comprehensive examination on reference states is still lacking. In this work, we built six statistical potentials based on six reference states widely used in protein structure evaluation, including averaging, quasi-chemical approximation, atom-shuffled, finite-ideal-gas, spherical-noninteracting, and random-walk-chain reference states, and we examined the six reference states against three RNA test sets including six subsets. Our extensive examinations show that, overall, for identifying native structures and ranking decoy structures, the finite-ideal-gas and random-walk-chain reference states are slightly superior to others, while for identifying near-native structures, there is only a slight difference between these reference states. Our further analyses show that the performance of a statistical potential is apparently dependent on the quality of the training set. Furthermore, we found that the performance of a statistical potential is closely related to the origin of test sets, and for the three realistic test subsets, the six statistical potentials have overall unsatisfactory performance. This work presents a comprehensive examination on the existing reference states and statistical potentials for RNA 3D structure evaluation.
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- Ya-Lan Tan
- Center for Theoretical Physics and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Center for Theoretical Physics and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Center for Theoretical Physics and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Research Center of Nonlinear Science, School of Mathematics and Computer Science, Wuhan Textile University, Wuhan 430073, China
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- Center for Theoretical Physics and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- Center for Theoretical Physics and Key Laboratory of Artificial Micro and Nano-structures of Ministry of Education, School of Physics and Technology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, China
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- A. Subha Mahadevi
- Centre for Molecular Modelling, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Tarnaka, Hyderabad, India 500607
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- Centre for Molecular Modelling, CSIR-Indian Institute of Chemical Technology, Tarnaka, Hyderabad, India 500607
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Qin W, Zhao G, Carson M, Jia C, Lu H. Knowledge-based three-body potential for transcription factor binding site prediction. IET Syst Biol 2016; 10:23-9. [PMID: 26816396 DOI: 10.1049/iet-syb.2014.0066] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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A structure-based statistical potential is developed for transcription factor binding site (TFBS) prediction. Besides the direct contact between amino acids from TFs and DNA bases, the authors also considered the influence of the neighbouring base. This three-body potential showed better discriminate powers than the two-body potential. They validate the performance of the potential in TFBS identification, binding energy prediction and binding mutation prediction.
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- Wenyi Qin
- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Embryology, Ministry of Health & Shanghai Key Laboratory of Embryo and Reproduction Engineering, Shanghai 200040, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- School of Computer and Information Technology & Beijing Key Lab of Traffic Data Analysis, Beijing Jiaotong University, Beijing, People's Republic of China
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- Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA.
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Elhefnawy W, Chen L, Han Y, Li Y. ICOSA: A Distance-Dependent, Orientation-Specific Coarse-Grained Contact Potential for Protein Structure Modeling. J Mol Biol 2015; 427:2562-2576. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2015.05.022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2015] [Accepted: 05/21/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Liang J, Cao Y, Gürsoy G, Naveed H, Terebus A, Zhao J. Multiscale Modeling of Cellular Epigenetic States: Stochasticity in Molecular Networks, Chromatin Folding in Cell Nuclei, and Tissue Pattern Formation of Cells. Crit Rev Biomed Eng 2015; 43:323-46. [PMID: 27480462 PMCID: PMC4976639 DOI: 10.1615/critrevbiomedeng.2016016559] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Genome sequences provide the overall genetic blueprint of cells, but cells possessing the same genome can exhibit diverse phenotypes. There is a multitude of mechanisms controlling cellular epigenetic states and that dictate the behavior of cells. Among these, networks of interacting molecules, often under stochastic control, depending on the specific wirings of molecular components and the physiological conditions, can have a different landscape of cellular states. In addition, chromosome folding in three-dimensional space provides another important control mechanism for selective activation and repression of gene expression. Fully differentiated cells with different properties grow, divide, and interact through mechanical forces and communicate through signal transduction, resulting in the formation of complex tissue patterns. Developing quantitative models to study these multi-scale phenomena and to identify opportunities for improving human health requires development of theoretical models, algorithms, and computational tools. Here we review recent progress made in these important directions.
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- Jie Liang
- Program in Bioinformatics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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- Theoretical Biology and Biophysics (T-6) and Center for Nonlinear Studies (CNLS), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, 87545, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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- Toyota Technological Institute at Chicago, 6045 S. Kenwood Ave. Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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- Program in Bioinformatics, Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, IL, 60612, USA
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Ghomi HT, Thompson JJ, Lill MA. Are distance-dependent statistical potentials considering three interacting bodies superior to two-body statistical potentials for protein structure prediction? J Bioinform Comput Biol 2014; 12:1450022. [PMID: 25212727 DOI: 10.1142/s021972001450022x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/02/2023]
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Distance-based statistical potentials have long been used to model condensed matter systems, e.g. as scoring functions in differentiating native-like protein structures from decoys. These scoring functions are based on the assumption that the total free energy of the protein can be calculated as the sum of pairwise free energy contributions derived from a statistical analysis of pair-distribution functions. However, this fundamental assumption has been challenged theoretically. In fact the free energy of a system with N particles is only exactly related to the N-body distribution function. Based on this argument coarse-grained multi-body statistical potentials have been developed to capture higher-order interactions. Having a coarse representation of the protein and using geometric contacts instead of pairwise interaction distances renders these models insufficient in modeling details of multi-body effects. In this study, we investigated if extending distance-dependent pairwise atomistic statistical potentials to corresponding interaction functions that are conditional on a third interacting body, defined as quasi-three-body statistical potentials, could model details of three-body interactions. We also tested if this approach could improve the predictive capabilities of statistical scoring functions for protein structure prediction. We analyzed the statistical dependency between two simultaneous pairwise interactions and showed that there is surprisingly little if any dependency of a third interacting site on pairwise atomistic statistical potentials. Also the protein structure prediction performance of these quasi-three-body potentials is comparable with their corresponding two-body counterparts. The scoring functions developed in this study showed better or comparable performances compared to some widely used scoring functions for protein structure prediction.
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- Hamed Tabatabaei Ghomi
- Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, College of Pharmacy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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By focusing on essential features, while averaging over less important details, coarse-grained (CG) models provide significant computational and conceptual advantages with respect to more detailed models. Consequently, despite dramatic advances in computational methodologies and resources, CG models enjoy surging popularity and are becoming increasingly equal partners to atomically detailed models. This perspective surveys the rapidly developing landscape of CG models for biomolecular systems. In particular, this review seeks to provide a balanced, coherent, and unified presentation of several distinct approaches for developing CG models, including top-down, network-based, native-centric, knowledge-based, and bottom-up modeling strategies. The review summarizes their basic philosophies, theoretical foundations, typical applications, and recent developments. Additionally, the review identifies fundamental inter-relationships among the diverse approaches and discusses outstanding challenges in the field. When carefully applied and assessed, current CG models provide highly efficient means for investigating the biological consequences of basic physicochemical principles. Moreover, rigorous bottom-up approaches hold great promise for further improving the accuracy and scope of CG models for biomolecular systems.
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- W G Noid
- Department of Chemistry, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA
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Andreani J, Faure G, Guerois R. InterEvScore: a novel coarse-grained interface scoring function using a multi-body statistical potential coupled to evolution. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2013; 29:1742-9. [PMID: 23652426 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btt260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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MOTIVATION Structural prediction of protein interactions currently remains a challenging but fundamental goal. In particular, progress in scoring functions is critical for the efficient discrimination of near-native interfaces among large sets of decoys. Many functions have been developed using knowledge-based potentials, but few make use of multi-body interactions or evolutionary information, although multi-residue interactions are crucial for protein-protein binding and protein interfaces undergo significant selection pressure to maintain their interactions. RESULTS This article presents InterEvScore, a novel scoring function using a coarse-grained statistical potential including two- and three-body interactions, which provides each residue with the opportunity to contribute in its most favorable local structural environment. Combination of this potential with evolutionary information considerably improves scoring results on the 54 test cases from the widely used protein docking benchmark for which evolutionary information can be collected. We analyze how our way to include evolutionary information gradually increases the discriminative power of InterEvScore. Comparison with several previously published scoring functions (ZDOCK, ZRANK and SPIDER) shows the significant progress brought by InterEvScore. AVAILABILITY http://biodev.cea.fr/interevol/interevscore CONTACT guerois@cea.fr SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Jessica Andreani
- CEA, iBiTecS, Service de Bioenergetique Biologie Structurale et Mecanismes SB2SM, Laboratoire de Biologie Structurale et Radiobiologie LBSR, F-91191 Gif sur Yvette, France
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Johansson KE, Hamelryck T. A simple probabilistic model of multibody interactions in proteins. Proteins 2013; 81:1340-50. [DOI: 10.1002/prot.24277] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/13/2012] [Revised: 01/31/2013] [Accepted: 02/18/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- Kristoffer Enøe Johansson
- Section for Biomolecular Sciences; Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen; Ole Maal⊘es Vej 5, DK-2200 Copenhagen N Denmark
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- Section for Computational and RNA biology; Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen; Room 1.2.22, Ole Maal⊘es Vej 5 DK-2200 Copenhagen N Denmark
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Khashan R, Zheng W, Tropsha A. Scoring protein interaction decoys using exposed residues (SPIDER): a novel multibody interaction scoring function based on frequent geometric patterns of interfacial residues. Proteins 2012; 80:2207-17. [PMID: 22581643 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24110] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/11/2012] [Revised: 04/05/2012] [Accepted: 04/20/2012] [Indexed: 01/14/2023]
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Accurate prediction of the structure of protein-protein complexes in computational docking experiments remains a formidable challenge. It has been recognized that identifying native or native-like poses among multiple decoys is the major bottleneck of the current scoring functions used in docking. We have developed a novel multibody pose-scoring function that has no theoretical limit on the number of residues contributing to the individual interaction terms. We use a coarse-grain representation of a protein-protein complex where each residue is represented by its side chain centroid. We apply a computational geometry approach called Almost-Delaunay tessellation that transforms protein-protein complexes into a residue contact network, or an undirectional graph where vertex-residues are nodes connected by edges. This treatment forms a family of interfacial graphs representing a dataset of protein-protein complexes. We then employ frequent subgraph mining approach to identify common interfacial residue patterns that appear in at least a subset of native protein-protein interfaces. The geometrical parameters and frequency of occurrence of each "native" pattern in the training set are used to develop the new SPIDER scoring function. SPIDER was validated using standard "ZDOCK" benchmark dataset that was not used in the development of SPIDER. We demonstrate that SPIDER scoring function ranks native and native-like poses above geometrical decoys and that it exceeds in performance a popular ZRANK scoring function. SPIDER was ranked among the top scoring functions in a recent round of CAPRI (Critical Assessment of PRedicted Interactions) blind test of protein-protein docking methods.
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- Raed Khashan
- Division of Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
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Zhou H, Skolnick J. GOAP: a generalized orientation-dependent, all-atom statistical potential for protein structure prediction. Biophys J 2012; 101:2043-52. [PMID: 22004759 DOI: 10.1016/j.bpj.2011.09.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 201] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/15/2011] [Revised: 09/07/2011] [Accepted: 09/09/2011] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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An accurate scoring function is a key component for successful protein structure prediction. To address this important unsolved problem, we develop a generalized orientation and distance-dependent all-atom statistical potential. The new statistical potential, generalized orientation-dependent all-atom potential (GOAP), depends on the relative orientation of the planes associated with each heavy atom in interacting pairs. GOAP is a generalization of previous orientation-dependent potentials that consider only representative atoms or blocks of side-chain or polar atoms. GOAP is decomposed into distance- and angle-dependent contributions. The DFIRE distance-scaled finite ideal gas reference state is employed for the distance-dependent component of GOAP. GOAP was tested on 11 commonly used decoy sets containing 278 targets, and recognized 226 native structures as best from the decoys, whereas DFIRE recognized 127 targets. The major improvement comes from decoy sets that have homology-modeled structures that are close to native (all within ∼4.0 Å) or from the ROSETTA ab initio decoy set. For these two kinds of decoys, orientation-independent DFIRE or only side-chain orientation-dependent RWplus performed poorly. Although the OPUS-PSP block-based orientation-dependent, side-chain atom contact potential performs much better (recognizing 196 targets) than DFIRE, RWplus, and dDFIRE, it is still ∼15% worse than GOAP. Thus, GOAP is a promising advance in knowledge-based, all-atom statistical potentials. GOAP is available for download at http://cssb.biology.gatech.edu/GOAP.
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- Hongyi Zhou
- Center for the Study of Systems Biology, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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Masso M. Generation of atomic four-body statistical potentials derived from the delaunay tessellation of protein structures. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. IEEE ENGINEERING IN MEDICINE AND BIOLOGY SOCIETY. ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE 2012; 2012:6321-6324. [PMID: 23367374 DOI: 10.1109/embc.2012.6347439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Delaunay tessellation of the atomic coordinates for a crystallographic protein structure yields an aggregate of non-overlapping and space-filling irregular tetrahedral simplices. The vertices of each simplex objectively identify a quadruplet of nearest neighbor atoms in the protein. Here we apply Delaunay tessellation to 1417 high-resolution structures of single chains that share low sequence identity, for the purpose of determining the relative frequencies of occurrence for all possible nearest neighbor atomic quadruplet types. Alternative distributions are explored by varying two fundamental parameters: atomic alphabet selection and cutoff length for admissible simplex edges. The distributions are then converted to four-body potential functions by implementing the inverted Boltzmann principle, which requires calculating the distribution of the reference state. Two alternative definitions for the reference state are presented, which introduces a third parameter, and we derive and compare an array of such potential functions. These knowledge-based statistical potentials based on higher-order interactions complement and generalize the more commonly encountered atom-pair potentials, for which a number of approaches are described in the literature.
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- Majid Masso
- Laboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, School of Systems Biology, George Mason University, Manassas, VA 20110, USA.
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Huang SY, Zou X. Statistical mechanics-based method to extract atomic distance-dependent potentials from protein structures. Proteins 2011; 79:2648-61. [PMID: 21732421 PMCID: PMC11108592 DOI: 10.1002/prot.23086] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2011] [Revised: 04/21/2011] [Accepted: 05/09/2011] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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In this study, we have developed a statistical mechanics-based iterative method to extract statistical atomic interaction potentials from known, nonredundant protein structures. Our method circumvents the long-standing reference state problem in deriving traditional knowledge-based scoring functions, by using rapid iterations through a physical, global convergence function. The rapid convergence of this physics-based method, unlike other parameter optimization methods, warrants the feasibility of deriving distance-dependent, all-atom statistical potentials to keep the scoring accuracy. The derived potentials, referred to as ITScore/Pro, have been validated using three diverse benchmarks: the high-resolution decoy set, the AMBER benchmark decoy set, and the CASP8 decoy set. Significant improvement in performance has been achieved. Finally, comparisons between the potentials of our model and potentials of a knowledge-based scoring function with a randomized reference state have revealed the reason for the better performance of our scoring function, which could provide useful insight into the development of other physical scoring functions. The potentials developed in this study are generally applicable for structural selection in protein structure prediction.
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- Sheng-You Huang
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Biochemistry, Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, and Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, Department of Biochemistry, Dalton Cardiovascular Research Center, and Informatics Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211
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Free energies for coarse-grained proteins by integrating multibody statistical contact potentials with entropies from elastic network models. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2011; 12:137-47. [PMID: 21674234 DOI: 10.1007/s10969-011-9113-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/18/2010] [Accepted: 05/26/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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We propose a novel method of calculation of free energy for coarse grained models of proteins by combining our newly developed multibody potentials with entropies computed from elastic network models of proteins. Multi-body potentials have been of much interest recently because they take into account three dimensional interactions related to residue packing and capture the cooperativity of these interactions in protein structures. Combining four-body non-sequential, four-body sequential and pairwise short range potentials with optimized weights for each term, our coarse-grained potential improved recognition of native structure among misfolded decoys, outperforming all other contact potentials for CASP8 decoy sets and performance comparable to the fully atomic empirical DFIRE potentials. By combing statistical contact potentials with entropies from elastic network models of the same structures we can compute free energy changes and improve coarse-grained modeling of protein structure and dynamics. The consideration of protein flexibility and dynamics should improve protein structure prediction and refinement of computational models. This work is the first to combine coarse-grained multibody potentials with an entropic model that takes into account contributions of the entire structure, investigating native-like decoy selection.
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Gniewek P, Leelananda SP, Kolinski A, Jernigan RL, Kloczkowski A. Multibody coarse-grained potentials for native structure recognition and quality assessment of protein models. Proteins 2011; 79:1923-9. [PMID: 21560165 DOI: 10.1002/prot.23015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2010] [Revised: 01/07/2011] [Accepted: 01/28/2011] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Multibody potentials have been of much interest recently because they take into account three dimensional interactions related to residue packing and capture the cooperativity of these interactions in protein structures. Our goal was to combine long range multibody potentials and short range potentials to improve recognition of native structure among misfolded decoys. We optimized the weights for four-body nonsequential, four-body sequential, and short range potentials to obtain optimal model ranking results for threading and have compared these data against results obtained with other potentials (26 different coarse-grained potentials from the Potentials 'R'Us web server have been used). Our optimized multibody potentials outperform all other contact potentials in the recognition of the native structure among decoys, both for models from homology template-based modeling and from template-free modeling in CASP8 decoy sets. We have compared the results obtained for this optimized coarse-grained potentials, where each residue is represented by a single point, with results obtained by using the DFIRE potential, which takes into account atomic level information of proteins. We found that for all proteins larger than 80 amino acids our optimized coarse-grained potentials yield results comparable to those obtained with the atomic DFIRE potential.
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- Pawel Gniewek
- Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland
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Hanes MS, Reynolds KA, McNamara C, Ghosh P, Bonomo RA, Kirsch JF, Handel TM. Specificity and cooperativity at β-lactamase position 104 in TEM-1/BLIP and SHV-1/BLIP interactions. Proteins 2011; 79:1267-76. [PMID: 21294157 PMCID: PMC3417816 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22961] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2010] [Revised: 11/30/2010] [Accepted: 12/02/2010] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Establishing a quantitative understanding of the determinants of affinity in protein-protein interactions remains challenging. For example, TEM-1/β-lactamase inhibitor protein (BLIP) and SHV-1/BLIP are homologous β-lactamase/β-lactamase inhibitor protein complexes with disparate K(d) values (3 nM and 2 μM, respectively), and a single substitution, D104E in SHV-1, results in a 1000-fold enhancement in binding affinity. In TEM-1, E104 participates in a salt bridge with BLIP K74, whereas the corresponding SHV-1 D104 does not in the wild type SHV-1/BLIP co-structure. Here, we present a 1.6 Å crystal structure of the SHV-1 D104E/BLIP complex that demonstrates that this point mutation restores this salt bridge. Additionally, mutation of a neighboring residue, BLIP E73M, results in salt bridge formation between SHV-1 D104 and BLIP K74 and a 400-fold increase in binding affinity. To understand how this salt bridge contributes to complex affinity, the cooperativity between the E/K or D/K salt bridge pair and a neighboring hot spot residue (BLIP F142) was investigated using double mutant cycle analyses in the background of the E73M mutation. We find that BLIP F142 cooperatively stabilizes both interactions, illustrating how a single mutation at a hot spot position can drive large perturbations in interface stability and specificity through a cooperative interaction network.
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- Melinda S. Hanes
- Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94729,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093
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- Biophysics Graduate Group, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94729,Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093
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- Research Service, Louis Stokes Cleveland Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106,Department of Pharmacology, Molecular Biology and Microbiology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, 44106
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- Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94729
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- Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of California, San Diego, San Diego, CA 92093
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Donald JE, Kulp DW, DeGrado WF. Salt bridges: geometrically specific, designable interactions. Proteins 2011; 79:898-915. [PMID: 21287621 DOI: 10.1002/prot.22927] [Citation(s) in RCA: 239] [Impact Index Per Article: 18.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/12/2010] [Revised: 10/04/2010] [Accepted: 10/22/2010] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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Salt bridges occur frequently in proteins, providing conformational specificity and contributing to molecular recognition and catalysis. We present a comprehensive analysis of these interactions in protein structures by surveying a large database of protein structures. Salt bridges between Asp or Glu and His, Arg, or Lys display extremely well-defined geometric preferences. Several previously observed preferences are confirmed, and others that were previously unrecognized are discovered. Salt bridges are explored for their preferences for different separations in sequence and in space, geometric preferences within proteins and at protein-protein interfaces, co-operativity in networked salt bridges, inclusion within metal-binding sites, preference for acidic electrons, apparent conformational side chain entropy reduction on formation, and degree of burial. Salt bridges occur far more frequently between residues at close than distant sequence separations, but, at close distances, there remain strong preferences for salt bridges at specific separations. Specific types of complex salt bridges, involving three or more members, are also discovered. As we observe a strong relationship between the propensity to form a salt bridge and the placement of salt-bridging residues in protein sequences, we discuss the role that salt bridges might play in kinetically influencing protein folding and thermodynamically stabilizing the native conformation. We also develop a quantitative method to select appropriate crystal structure resolution and B-factor cutoffs. Detailed knowledge of these geometric and sequence dependences should aid de novo design and prediction algorithms.
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- Jason E Donald
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Tian Y, Deutsch C, Krishnamoorthy B. Scoring function to predict solubility mutagenesis. Algorithms Mol Biol 2010; 5:33. [PMID: 20929563 PMCID: PMC2958853 DOI: 10.1186/1748-7188-5-33] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/01/2010] [Accepted: 10/07/2010] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Mutagenesis is commonly used to engineer proteins with desirable properties not present in the wild type (WT) protein, such as increased or decreased stability, reactivity, or solubility. Experimentalists often have to choose a small subset of mutations from a large number of candidates to obtain the desired change, and computational techniques are invaluable to make the choices. While several such methods have been proposed to predict stability and reactivity mutagenesis, solubility has not received much attention. RESULTS We use concepts from computational geometry to define a three body scoring function that predicts the change in protein solubility due to mutations. The scoring function captures both sequence and structure information. By exploring the literature, we have assembled a substantial database of 137 single- and multiple-point solubility mutations. Our database is the largest such collection with structural information known so far. We optimize the scoring function using linear programming (LP) methods to derive its weights based on training. Starting with default values of 1, we find weights in the range [0,2] so that predictions of increase or decrease in solubility are optimized. We compare the LP method to the standard machine learning techniques of support vector machines (SVM) and the Lasso. Using statistics for leave-one-out (LOO), 10-fold, and 3-fold cross validations (CV) for training and prediction, we demonstrate that the LP method performs the best overall. For the LOOCV, the LP method has an overall accuracy of 81%. AVAILABILITY Executables of programs, tables of weights, and datasets of mutants are available from the following web page: http://www.wsu.edu/~kbala/OptSolMut.html.
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- Ye Tian
- Department of Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, Washington State University, Pullman, WA 99164, USA
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Wang L, Friesner RA, Berne BJ. Hydrophobic interactions in model enclosures from small to large length scales: non-additivity in explicit and implicit solvent models. Faraday Discuss 2010; 146:247-62; discussion 283-98, 395-401. [PMID: 21043426 PMCID: PMC3052764 DOI: 10.1039/b925521b] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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The binding affinities between a united-atom methane and various model hydrophobic enclosures were studied through high accuracy free energy perturbation methods (FEP). We investigated the non-additivity of the hydrophobic interaction in these systems, measured by the deviation of its binding affinity from that predicted by the pairwise additivity approximation. While only small non-additivity effects were previously reported in the interactions in methane trimers, we found large cooperative effects (as large as -1.14 kcal mol(-1) or approximately a 25% increase in the binding affinity) and anti-cooperative effects (as large as 0.45 kcal mol(-1)) for these model enclosed systems. Decomposition of the total potential of mean force (PMF) into increasing orders of multi-body interactions indicates that the contributions of the higher order multi-body interactions can be either positive or negative in different systems, and increasing the order of multi-body interactions considered did not necessarily improve the accuracy. A general correlation between the sign of the non-additivity effect and the curvature of the solute molecular surface was observed. We found that implicit solvent models based on the molecular surface area (MSA) performed much better, not only in predicting binding affinities, but also in predicting the non-additivity effects, compared with models based on the solvent accessible surface area (SASA), suggesting that MSA is a better descriptor of the curvature of the solutes. We also show how the non-additivity contribution changes as the hydrophobicity of the plate is decreased from the dewetting regime to the wetting regime.
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- Lingle Wang
- Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, 3000 Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA
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The function of a protein is often fulfilled via molecular interactions on its surfaces, so identifying the functional surface(s) of a protein is helpful for understanding its function. Here, we introduce the concept of a split pocket, which is a pocket that is split by a cognate ligand. We use a geometric approach that is site-specific. Specifically, we first compute a set of all pockets in the protein with its ligand(s) and a set of all pockets with the ligand(s) removed and then compare the two sets of pockets to identify the split pocket(s) of the protein. To reduce the search space and expedite the process of surface partitioning, we design probe radii according to the physicochemical textures of molecules. Our method achieves a success rate of 96% on a benchmark test set. We conduct a large-scale computation to identify approximately 19,000 split pockets from 11,328 structures (1.16 million potential pockets); for each pocket, we obtain residue composition, solvent-accessible area, and molecular volume. With this database of split pockets, our method can be used to predict the functional surfaces of unbound structures. Indeed, the functional surface of an unbound protein may often be found from its similarity to remotely related bound forms that belong to distinct folds. Finally, we apply our method to identify glucose-binding proteins, including unbound structures. Our study demonstrates the power of geometric and evolutionary matching for studying protein functional evolution and provides a framework for classifying protein functions by local spatial patterns of functional surfaces.
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- Yan Yuan Tseng
- Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
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Empirical or knowledge-based potentials have many applications in structural biology such as the prediction of protein structure, protein-protein, and protein-ligand interactions and in the evaluation of stability for mutant proteins, the assessment of errors in experimentally solved structures, and the design of new proteins. Here, we describe a simple procedure to derive and use pairwise distance-dependent potentials that rely on the definition of effective atomic interactions, which attempt to capture interactions that are more likely to be physically relevant. Based on a difficult benchmark test composed of proteins with different secondary structure composition and representing many different folds, we show that the use of effective atomic interactions significantly improves the performance of potentials at discriminating between native and near-native conformations. We also found that, in agreement with previous reports, the potentials derived from the observed effective atomic interactions in native protein structures contain a larger amount of mutual information. A detailed analysis of the effective energy functions shows that atom connectivity effects, which mostly arise when deriving the potential by the incorporation of those indirect atomic interactions occurring beyond the first atomic shell, are clearly filtered out. The shape of the energy functions for direct atomic interactions representing hydrogen bonding and disulfide and salt bridges formation is almost unaffected when effective interactions are taken into account. On the contrary, the shape of the energy functions for indirect atom interactions (i.e., those describing the interaction between two atoms bound to a direct interacting pair) is clearly different when effective interactions are considered. Effective energy functions for indirect interacting atom pairs are not influenced by the shape or the energy minimum observed for the corresponding direct interacting atom pair. Our results suggest that the dependency between the signals in different energy functions is a key aspect that need to be addressed when empirical energy functions are derived and used, and also highlight the importance of additivity assumptions in the use of potential energy functions.
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- Evandro Ferrada
- Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Alameda 340, Santiago, Chile
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Feng Y, Kloczkowski A, Jernigan RL. Four-body contact potentials derived from two protein datasets to discriminate native structures from decoys. Proteins 2007; 68:57-66. [PMID: 17393455 DOI: 10.1002/prot.21362] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Two-body inter-residue contact potentials for proteins have often been extracted and extensively used for threading. Here, we have developed a new scheme to derive four-body contact potentials as a way to consider protein interactions in a more cooperative model. We use several datasets of protein native structures to demonstrate that around 500 chains are sufficient to provide a good estimate of these four-body contact potentials by obtaining convergent threading results. We also have deliberately chosen two sets of protein native structures differing in resolution, one with all chains' resolution better than 1.5 A and the other with 94.2% of the structures having a resolution worse than 1.5 A to investigate whether potentials from well-refined protein datasets perform better in threading. However, potentials from well-refined proteins did not generate statistically significant better threading results. Our four-body contact potentials can discriminate well between native structures and partially unfolded or deliberately misfolded structures. Compared with another set of four-body contact potentials derived by using a Delaunay tessellation algorithm, our four-body contact potentials appear to offer a better characterization of the interactions between backbones and side chains and provide better threading results, somewhat complementary to those found using other potentials.
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- Yaping Feng
- Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics, and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011-0320, USA
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A significant number of protein sequences in a given proteome have no obvious evolutionarily related protein in the database of solved protein structures, the PDB. Under these conditions, ab initio or template-free modeling methods are the sole means of predicting protein structure. To assess its expected performance on proteomes, the TASSER structure prediction algorithm is benchmarked in the ab initio limit on a representative set of 1129 nonhomologous sequences ranging from 40 to 200 residues that cover the PDB at 30% sequence identity and which adopt alpha, alpha + beta, and beta secondary structures. For sequences in the 40-100 (100-200) residue range, as assessed by their root mean square deviation from native, RMSD, the best of the top five ranked models of TASSER has a global fold that is significantly close to the native structure for 25% (16%) of the sequences, and with a correct identification of the structure of the protein core for 59% (36%). In the absence of a native structure, the structural similarity among the top five ranked models is a moderately reliable predictor of folding accuracy. If we classify the sequences according to their secondary structure content, then 64% (36%) of alpha, 43% (24%) of alpha + beta, and 20% (12%) of beta sequences in the 40-100 (100-200) residue range have a significant TM-score (TM-score > or = 0.4). TASSER performs best on helical proteins because there are less secondary structural elements to arrange in a helical protein than in a beta protein of equal length, since the average length of a helix is longer than that of a strand. In addition, helical proteins have shorter loops and dangling tails. If we exclude these flexible fragments, then TASSER has similar accuracy for sequences containing the same number of secondary structural elements, irrespective of whether they are helices and/or strands. Thus, it is the effective configurational entropy of the protein that dictates the average likelihood of correctly arranging the secondary structure elements.
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- Jose M Borreguero
- Center for the Study of Systems Biology, School of Biology, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia 30318, USA
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Tiwari A, Tiwari V. HBNG: Graph theory based visualization of hydrogen bond networks in protein structures. Bioinformation 2007; 2:28-30. [PMID: 18084648 PMCID: PMC2139992 DOI: 10.6026/97320630002028] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2007] [Revised: 05/28/2007] [Accepted: 06/03/2007] [Indexed: 11/23/2022] Open
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UNLABELLED HBNG is a graph theory based tool for visualization of hydrogen bond network in 2D. Digraphs generated by HBNG facilitate visualization of cooperativity and anticooperativity chains and rings in protein structures. HBNG takes hydrogen bonds list files (output from HBAT, HBEXPLORE, HBPLUS and STRIDE) as input and generates a DOT language script and constructs digraphs using freeware AT and T Graphviz tool. HBNG is useful in the enumeration of favorable topologies of hydrogen bond networks in protein structures and determining the effect of cooperativity and anticooperativity on protein stability and folding. HBNG can be applied to protein structure comparison and in the identification of secondary structural regions in protein structures. AVAILABILITY Program is available from the authors for non-commercial purposes.
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- Abhishek Tiwari
- GVK Biosciences, Informatics Division, Hyderabad 500037, India.
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Fogolari F, Pieri L, Dovier A, Bortolussi L, Giugliarelli G, Corazza A, Esposito G, Viglino P. Scoring predictive models using a reduced representation of proteins: model and energy definition. BMC STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2007; 7:15. [PMID: 17378941 PMCID: PMC1854906 DOI: 10.1186/1472-6807-7-15] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/28/2006] [Accepted: 03/23/2007] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Background Reduced representations of proteins have been playing a keyrole in the study of protein folding. Many such models are available, with different representation detail. Although the usefulness of many such models for structural bioinformatics applications has been demonstrated in recent years, there are few intermediate resolution models endowed with an energy model capable, for instance, of detecting native or native-like structures among decoy sets. The aim of the present work is to provide a discrete empirical potential for a reduced protein model termed here PC2CA, because it employs a PseudoCovalent structure with only 2 Centers of interactions per Amino acid, suitable for protein model quality assessment. Results All protein structures in the set top500H have been converted in reduced form. The distribution of pseudobonds, pseudoangle, pseudodihedrals and distances between centers of interactions have been converted into potentials of mean force. A suitable reference distribution has been defined for non-bonded interactions which takes into account excluded volume effects and protein finite size. The correlation between adjacent main chain pseudodihedrals has been converted in an additional energetic term which is able to account for cooperative effects in secondary structure elements. Local energy surface exploration is performed in order to increase the robustness of the energy function. Conclusion The model and the energy definition proposed have been tested on all the multiple decoys' sets in the Decoys'R'us database. The energetic model is able to recognize, for almost all sets, native-like structures (RMSD less than 2.0 Å). These results and those obtained in the blind CASP7 quality assessment experiment suggest that the model compares well with scoring potentials with finer granularity and could be useful for fast exploration of conformational space. Parameters are available at the url: .
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- Federico Fogolari
- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università di Udine, P.le Kolbe 4, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università di Udine, P.le Kolbe 4, 33100 Udine, Italy
- INAF – Astronomical Observatory of Padova Vicolo dell'Osservatorio 5, I-35122 Padova, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Matematica e Informatica, Università di Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Udine, Via delle Scienze 206, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università di Udine, P.le Kolbe 4, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università di Udine, P.le Kolbe 4, 33100 Udine, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnologie Biomediche, Università di Udine, P.le Kolbe 4, 33100 Udine, Italy
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Tseng YY, Liang J. Estimation of amino acid residue substitution rates at local spatial regions and application in protein function inference: a Bayesian Monte Carlo approach. Mol Biol Evol 2005; 23:421-36. [PMID: 16251508 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msj048] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
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The amino acid sequences of proteins provide rich information for inferring distant phylogenetic relationships and for predicting protein functions. Estimating the rate matrix of residue substitutions from amino acid sequences is also important because the rate matrix can be used to develop scoring matrices for sequence alignment. Here we use a continuous time Markov process to model the substitution rates of residues and develop a Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo method for rate estimation. We validate our method using simulated artificial protein sequences. Because different local regions such as binding surfaces and the protein interior core experience different selection pressures due to functional or stability constraints, we use our method to estimate the substitution rates of local regions. Our results show that the substitution rates are very different for residues in the buried core and residues on the solvent-exposed surfaces. In addition, the rest of the proteins on the binding surfaces also have very different substitution rates from residues. Based on these findings, we further develop a method for protein function prediction by surface matching using scoring matrices derived from estimated substitution rates for residues located on the binding surfaces. We show with examples that our method is effective in identifying functionally related proteins that have overall low sequence identity, a task known to be very challenging.
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- Yan Y Tseng
- Department of Bioengineering, Science and Engineering Offices, MC-063, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
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