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Use of the Codon Table to Quantify the Evolutionary Role of Random Mutations. ALGORITHMS 2021. [DOI: 10.3390/a14090270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The various biases affecting RNA mutations during evolution is the subject of intense research, leaving the extent of the role of random mutations undefined. To remedy this lacuna, using the codon table, the number of codons representing each amino acid was correlated with the amino acid frequencies in different branches of the evolutionary tree. The correlations were seen to increase as evolution progressed. Furthermore, the number of RNA mutations that resulted in a given amino acid mutation were found to be correlated with several widely used amino acid similarity tables (used in sequence alignments). These correlations were seen to increase when the observed codon usage was factored in.
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Mittal A, Changani AM, Taparia S, Goel D, Parihar A, Singh I. Structural disorder originates beyond narrow stoichiometric margins of amino acids in naturally occurring folded proteins. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2020; 39:2364-2375. [PMID: 32238088 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2020.1751299] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Rigorous analyses of Euclidean distances between non-peptide bonded residues in structures of several thousand naturally occurring folded proteins yielded a surprising "margin of life" for percentage occurrence of individual amino acids in naturally occurring folded proteins. On one hand, the concept of "margin of life", referring to lower than expected variances in average stoichiometric occurrences of individual amino acids in folded proteins, remains unchallenged since its discovery a decade ago. On the other hand, within this past decade there has been a strong emergence of a gradual paradigm shift in biology, from sequence-structure-function in proteins to sequence-disorder-function, fuelled by discoveries on functional implications of intrinsically disordered proteins (primary sequences that do not form stable structures). Thus the applicability of "margin of life" to peptide-bonded residues in all known natural proteins, adopting stable structures vis-à-vis intrinsically disordered needs to be explored. Therefore in this work, we analyze compositions of the complete naturally occurring primary sequence space (over 560000 sequences) after dividing it into mutually exclusive subsets of structured and intrinsically disordered proteins along with a subset without any structural information. While finding that occurrence of different peptides (up to pentapeptides) is a direct consequence of the relative occurrences of their constituting residues in folded proteins, we report that structural disorder in natural proteins originates beyond the narrow stoichiometric margins of amino acids found in structured proteins.Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma.
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- Aditya Mittal
- Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India.,Supercomputing Facility for Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India
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- Department of Mathematics (Bachelors program in Mathematics & Computing), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology (Bachelors program), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India
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- Department of Biochemical Engineering and Biotechnology (Bachelors program), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India
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- Department of Computer Science & Engineering (Bachelors program Computer Science), Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India
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Pollack JD, Gerard D, Makhatadze GI, Pearl DK. Evolutionary conservation and structural localizations suggest a physical trace of metabolism’s progressive geochronological emergence. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:3700-3719. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1679666] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022]
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- J. Dennis Pollack
- Department of Molecular Virology, Immunology and Medical Genetics, College of Medicine, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA
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- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, American University, Washington, DC, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA
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- Department of Statistics, Penn State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA
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Mittal A, Changani AM, Taparia S. What limits the primary sequence space of natural proteins? J Biomol Struct Dyn 2019; 38:4579-4583. [DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2019.1682051] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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- Aditya Mittal
- Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India
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- Department of Mathematics, Bachelors Program in Mathematics & Computing, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi (IIT Delhi), New Delhi, India
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Singh S, Mittal A. Transmembrane Domain Lengths Serve as Signatures of Organismal Complexity and Viral Transport Mechanisms. Sci Rep 2016; 6:22352. [PMID: 26925972 PMCID: PMC4772119 DOI: 10.1038/srep22352] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2015] [Accepted: 02/12/2016] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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It is known that membrane proteins are important in various secretory pathways, with
a possible role of their transmembrane domains (TMDs) as sorting determinant
factors. One key aspect of TMDs associated with various
“checkposts” (i.e. organelles) of intracellular trafficking
is their length. To explore possible linkages in organisms with varying
“complexity” and differences in TMD lengths of membrane
proteins associated with different organelles (such as Endoplasmic Reticulum, Golgi,
Endosomes, Nucleus, Plasma Membrane), we analyzed ~70000 membrane
protein sequences in over 300 genomes of fungi, plants, non-mammalian vertebrates
and mammals. We report that as we move from simpler to complex organisms, variation
in organellar TMD lengths decreases, especially compared to their respective plasma
membranes, with increasing organismal complexity. This suggests an evolutionary
pressure in modulating length of TMDs of membrane proteins with increasing
complexity of communication between sub-cellular compartments. We also report
functional applications of our findings by discovering remarkable distinctions in
TMD lengths of membrane proteins associated with different intracellular transport
pathways. Finally, we show that TMD lengths extracted from viral proteins can serve
as somewhat weak indicators of viral replication sites in plant cells but very
strong indicators of different entry pathways employed by animal viruses.
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- Snigdha Singh
- Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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Bansal S, Mittal A. A statistical anomaly indicates symbiotic origins of eukaryotic membranes. Mol Biol Cell 2015; 26:1238-48. [PMID: 25631820 PMCID: PMC4454172 DOI: 10.1091/mbc.e14-06-1078] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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We report a remarkable statistical paradox from a compositional analysis of membrane lipids of archaea, eubacteria, and eukaryotes. The presence of Simpson's paradox in the analysis of lipids common to plasma membranes of all domains provides the first evidence based on the compositional analysis of lipidomics data for the symbiotic origins of eukaryotic cells. Compositional analyses of nucleic acids and proteins have shed light on possible origins of living cells. In this work, rigorous compositional analyses of ∼5000 plasma membrane lipid constituents of 273 species in the three life domains (archaea, eubacteria, and eukaryotes) revealed a remarkable statistical paradox, indicating symbiotic origins of eukaryotic cells involving eubacteria. For lipids common to plasma membranes of the three domains, the number of carbon atoms in eubacteria was found to be similar to that in eukaryotes. However, mutually exclusive subsets of same data show exactly the opposite—the number of carbon atoms in lipids of eukaryotes was higher than in eubacteria. This statistical paradox, called Simpson's paradox, was absent for lipids in archaea and for lipids not common to plasma membranes of the three domains. This indicates the presence of interaction(s) and/or association(s) in lipids forming plasma membranes of eubacteria and eukaryotes but not for those in archaea. Further inspection of membrane lipid structures affecting physicochemical properties of plasma membranes provides the first evidence (to our knowledge) on the symbiotic origins of eukaryotic cells based on the “third front” (i.e., lipids) in addition to the growing compositional data from nucleic acids and proteins.
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- Suneyna Bansal
- Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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- Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 110016, India
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Petrov VV. Point mutations in the extracytosolic loop between transmembrane segments M5 and M6 of the yeast Pma1 H+-ATPase: alanine-scanning mutagenesis. J Biomol Struct Dyn 2013; 33:70-84. [PMID: 24256122 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2013.849619] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Membrane-spanning segments M4, M5, M6, and M8 of the H(+)-, Ca(2+)-, and K(+), Na(+)-ATPases, which belong to the P2-type pumps are the core through which cations are transported. M5 and M6 loop is a short extracytoplasmic stretch of the seven amino acid residues (714-DNSLDID) connecting two of these segments, M5 and M6, where residues involved in the formation of the proton-binding site(s) are located. In the present study, we have used alanine-scanning mutagenesis to explore the structural and functional relationships within this loop of the yeast plasma membrane Pma1 H(+)-ATPase. Of the 7 Ala mutants made, substitution for the most conserved residue (Leu-717) has led to a severe misfolding and complete block in biogenesis of the mutant enzyme. The replacement of Asp-714 has also caused misfolding leading to significant decrease in the expression of the mutant and loss of activity. The remaining mutants were expressed in secretory vesicles at 21-119% of the wild-type level and were active enough to be analyzed in detail. One of these mutants (I719A) showed five- to threefold decrease in both expression and ATP hydrolyzing and H(+) pumping activities and also threefold reduction in the coupling ratio between ATP hydrolysis and H(+) transport. Thus, Ala substitutions at three positions of the seven seriously affected biogenesis, folding, stability and/or functioning of the enzyme. Taken together, these results lead to suggestion that M5 and M6 loop play an important role in the protein stability and function and is responsible for proper arrangement of transmembrane segments M5 and M6 and probably other domains of the enzyme. Results for additional conserved substitutions (Asn and Glu) at Asp-714 and Asp-720 confirmed this suggestion.
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- Valery V Petrov
- a Institute of Biochemistry and Physiology of Microorganisms, Russian Academy of Sciences , pr. Nauki 5, Pushchino 142290 , Russia
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Mittal A, Acharya C. Protein folding: is it simply surface to volume minimization? J Biomol Struct Dyn 2013; 31:953-5. [PMID: 23297677 DOI: 10.1080/07391102.2012.748526] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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- Aditya Mittal
- Kusuma School of Biological Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, Hauz Khas, New Delhi 10016, India.
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Bansal M, Jayaram B, Mittal A. Nucleic acids in disease and disorder: Understanding the language of life emerging from the ‘ABC’ of DNA. J Biosci 2012; 37:375-8. [DOI: 10.1007/s12038-012-9226-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/28/2022]
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