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Asim MN, Fazeel A, Ibrahim MA, Dengel A, Ahmed S. MP-VHPPI: Meta predictor for viral host protein-protein interaction prediction in multiple hosts and viruses. Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9:1025887. [PMID: 36465911 PMCID: PMC9709337 DOI: 10.3389/fmed.2022.1025887] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2022] [Accepted: 10/17/2022] [Indexed: 09/19/2023] Open
Abstract
Viral-host protein-protein interaction (VHPPI) prediction is essential to decoding molecular mechanisms of viral pathogens and host immunity processes that eventually help to control the propagation of viral diseases and to design optimized therapeutics. Multiple AI-based predictors have been developed to predict diverse VHPPIs across a wide range of viruses and hosts, however, these predictors produce better performance only for specific types of hosts and viruses. The prime objective of this research is to develop a robust meta predictor (MP-VHPPI) capable of more accurately predicting VHPPI across multiple hosts and viruses. The proposed meta predictor makes use of two well-known encoding methods Amphiphilic Pseudo-Amino Acid Composition (APAAC) and Quasi-sequence (QS) Order that capture amino acids sequence order and distributional information to most effectively generate the numerical representation of complete viral-host raw protein sequences. Feature agglomeration method is utilized to transform the original feature space into a more informative feature space. Random forest (RF) and Extra tree (ET) classifiers are trained on optimized feature space of both APAAC and QS order separate encoders and by combining both encodings. Further predictions of both classifiers are utilized to feed the Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifier that makes final predictions. The proposed meta predictor is evaluated over 7 different benchmark datasets, where it outperforms existing VHPPI predictors with an average performance of 3.07, 6.07, 2.95, and 2.85% in terms of accuracy, Mathews correlation coefficient, precision, and sensitivity, respectively. To facilitate the scientific community, the MP-VHPPI web server is available at https://sds_genetic_analysis.opendfki.de/MP-VHPPI/.
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- Muhammad Nabeel Asim
- Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany
- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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- German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
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Ismail H, White C, Al-Barakati H, Newman RH, Kc DB. FEPS: A Tool for Feature Extraction from Protein Sequence. Methods Mol Biol 2022; 2499:65-104. [PMID: 35696075 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-0716-2317-6_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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Machine learning has become one of the most popular choices for developing computational approaches in protein structural bioinformatics. The ability to extract features from protein sequence/structure often becomes one of the crucial steps for the development of machine learning-based approaches. Over the years, various sequence, structural, and physicochemical descriptors have been developed for proteins and these descriptors have been used to predict/solve various bioinformatics problems. Hence, several feature extraction tools have been developed over the years to help researchers to generate numeric features from protein sequences. Most of these tools have some limitations regarding the number of sequences they can handle and the subsequent preprocessing that is required for the generated features before they can be fed to machine learning methods. Here, we present Feature Extraction from Protein Sequences (FEPS), a toolkit for feature extraction. FEPS is a versatile software package for generating various descriptors from protein sequences and can handle several sequences: the number of which is limited only by the computational resources. In addition, the features extracted from FEPS do not require subsequent processing and are ready to be fed to the machine learning techniques as it provides various output formats as well as the ability to concatenate these generated features. FEPS is made freely available via an online web server as well as a stand-alone toolkit. FEPS, a comprehensive toolkit for feature extraction, will help spur the development of machine learning-based models for various bioinformatics problems.
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- Hamid Ismail
- Department of Animal Science, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA
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- Computational Science and Engineering Department, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Jamoum University College, Umm Al-Qura University, Jamoum, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Biology, North Carolina A&T State University, Greensboro, NC, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA.
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Shen Y, Liu C, Chi K, Gao Q, Bai X, Xu Y, Guo N. Development of a machine learning-based predictor for identifying and discovering antioxidant peptides based on a new strategy. Food Control 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.foodcont.2021.108439] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Khan ZU, Pi D. DeepSSPred: A Deep Learning Based Sulfenylation Site Predictor Via a Novel nSegmented Optimize Federated Feature Encoder. Protein Pept Lett 2021; 28:708-721. [PMID: 33267753 DOI: 10.2174/0929866527666201202103411] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2020] [Revised: 10/14/2020] [Accepted: 10/18/2020] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND S-sulfenylation (S-sulphenylation, or sulfenic acid) proteins, are special kinds of post-translation modification, which plays an important role in various physiological and pathological processes such as cytokine signaling, transcriptional regulation, and apoptosis. Despite these aforementioned significances, and by complementing existing wet methods, several computational models have been developed for sulfenylation cysteine sites prediction. However, the performance of these models was not satisfactory due to inefficient feature schemes, severe imbalance issues, and lack of an intelligent learning engine. OBJECTIVE In this study, our motivation is to establish a strong and novel computational predictor for discrimination of sulfenylation and non-sulfenylation sites. METHODS In this study, we report an innovative bioinformatics feature encoding tool, named DeepSSPred, in which, resulting encoded features is obtained via nSegmented hybrid feature, and then the resampling technique called synthetic minority oversampling was employed to cope with the severe imbalance issue between SC-sites (minority class) and non-SC sites (majority class). State of the art 2D-Convolutional Neural Network was employed over rigorous 10-fold jackknife cross-validation technique for model validation and authentication. RESULTS Following the proposed framework, with a strong discrete presentation of feature space, machine learning engine, and unbiased presentation of the underline training data yielded into an excellent model that outperforms with all existing established studies. The proposed approach is 6% higher in terms of MCC from the first best. On an independent dataset, the existing first best study failed to provide sufficient details. The model obtained an increase of 7.5% in accuracy, 1.22% in Sn, 12.91% in Sp and 13.12% in MCC on the training data and12.13% of ACC, 27.25% in Sn, 2.25% in Sp, and 30.37% in MCC on an independent dataset in comparison with 2nd best method. These empirical analyses show the superlative performance of the proposed model over both training and Independent dataset in comparison with existing literature studies. CONCLUSION In this research, we have developed a novel sequence-based automated predictor for SC-sites, called DeepSSPred. The empirical simulations outcomes with a training dataset and independent validation dataset have revealed the efficacy of the proposed theoretical model. The good performance of DeepSSPred is due to several reasons, such as novel discriminative feature encoding schemes, SMOTE technique, and careful construction of the prediction model through the tuned 2D-CNN classifier. We believe that our research work will provide a potential insight into a further prediction of S-sulfenylation characteristics and functionalities. Thus, we hope that our developed predictor will significantly helpful for large scale discrimination of unknown SC-sites in particular and designing new pharmaceutical drugs in general.
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- Zaheer Ullah Khan
- College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
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- College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, China
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Wang H, Xi Q, Liang P, Zheng L, Hong Y, Zuo Y. IHEC_RAAC: a online platform for identifying human enzyme classes via reduced amino acid cluster strategy. Amino Acids 2021; 53:239-251. [PMID: 33486591 DOI: 10.1007/s00726-021-02941-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2020] [Accepted: 01/11/2021] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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Enzymes have been proven to play considerable roles in disease diagnosis and biological functions. The feature extraction that truly reflects the intrinsic properties of protein is the most critical step for the automatic identification of enzymes. Although lots of feature extraction methods have been proposed, some challenges remain. In this study, we developed a predictor called IHEC_RAAC, which has the capability to identify whether a protein is a human enzyme and distinguish the function of the human enzyme. To improve the feature representation ability, protein sequences were encoded by a new feature-vector called 'reduced amino acid cluster'. We calculated 673 amino acid reduction alphabets to determine the optimal feature representative scheme. The tenfold cross-validation test showed that the accuracy of IHEC_RAAC to identify human enzymes was 74.66% and further discriminate the human enzyme classes with an accuracy of 54.78%, which was 2.06% and 8.68% higher than the state-of-the-art predictors, respectively. Additionally, the results from the independent dataset indicated that IHEC_RAAC can effectively predict human enzymes and human enzyme classes to further provide guidance for protein research. A user-friendly web server, IHEC_RAAC, is freely accessible at http://bioinfor.imu.edu.cn/ihecraac .
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- Hao Wang
- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010070, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Reproductive Regulation and Breeding of Grassland Livestock, College of Life Sciences, Inner Mongolia University, Hohhot, 010070, China.
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Ao C, Yu L, Zou Q. Prediction of bio-sequence modifications and the associations with diseases. Brief Funct Genomics 2020; 20:1-18. [PMID: 33313647 DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/elaa023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2020] [Revised: 11/09/2020] [Accepted: 11/10/2020] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Modifications of protein, RNA and DNA play an important role in many biological processes and are related to some diseases. Therefore, accurate identification and comprehensive understanding of protein, RNA and DNA modification sites can promote research on disease treatment and prevention. With the development of sequencing technology, the number of known sequences has continued to increase. In the past decade, many computational tools that can be used to predict protein, RNA and DNA modification sites have been developed. In this review, we comprehensively summarized the modification site predictors for three different biological sequences and the association with diseases. The relevant web server is accessible at http://lab.malab.cn/∼acy/PTM_data/ some sample data on protein, RNA and DNA modification can be downloaded from that website.
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Do DT, Le TQT, Le NQK. Using deep neural networks and biological subwords to detect protein S-sulfenylation sites. Brief Bioinform 2020; 22:5866114. [PMID: 32613242 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbaa128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/12/2020] [Revised: 05/11/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Protein S-sulfenylation is one kind of crucial post-translational modifications (PTMs) in which the hydroxyl group covalently binds to the thiol of cysteine. Some recent studies have shown that this modification plays an important role in signaling transduction, transcriptional regulation and apoptosis. To date, the dynamic of sulfenic acids in proteins remains unclear because of its fleeting nature. Identifying S-sulfenylation sites, therefore, could be the key to decipher its mysterious structures and functions, which are important in cell biology and diseases. However, due to the lack of effective methods, scientists in this field tend to be limited in merely a handful of some wet lab techniques that are time-consuming and not cost-effective. Thus, this motivated us to develop an in silico model for detecting S-sulfenylation sites only from protein sequence information. In this study, protein sequences served as natural language sentences comprising biological subwords. The deep neural network was consequentially employed to perform classification. The performance statistics within the independent dataset including sensitivity, specificity, accuracy, Matthews correlation coefficient and area under the curve rates achieved 85.71%, 69.47%, 77.09%, 0.5554 and 0.833, respectively. Our results suggested that the proposed method (fastSulf-DNN) achieved excellent performance in predicting S-sulfenylation sites compared to other well-known tools on a benchmark dataset.
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- Duyen Thi Do
- Faculty of Applied Sciences, Ton Duc Thang University
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- Professional Master Program in Artificial Intelligence in Medicine, Taipei Medical University
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AHMAD WAKIL, ARAFAT EASIN, TAHERZADEH GHAZALEH, SHARMA ALOK, DIPTA SHUBHASHISROY, DEHZANGI ABDOLLAH, SHATABDA SWAKKHAR. Mal-Light: Enhancing Lysine Malonylation Sites Prediction Problem Using Evolutionary-based Features. IEEE ACCESS : PRACTICAL INNOVATIONS, OPEN SOLUTIONS 2020; 8:77888-77902. [PMID: 33354488 PMCID: PMC7751949 DOI: 10.1109/access.2020.2989713] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/11/2023]
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Post Translational Modification (PTM) is considered an important biological process with a tremendous impact on the function of proteins in both eukaryotes, and prokaryotes cells. During the past decades, a wide range of PTMs has been identified. Among them, malonylation is a recently identified PTM which plays a vital role in a wide range of biological interactions. Notwithstanding, this modification plays a potential role in energy metabolism in different species including Homo Sapiens. The identification of PTM sites using experimental methods is time-consuming and costly. Hence, there is a demand for introducing fast and cost-effective computational methods. In this study, we propose a new machine learning method, called Mal-Light, to address this problem. To build this model, we extract local evolutionary-based information according to the interaction of neighboring amino acids using a bi-peptide based method. We then use Light Gradient Boosting (LightGBM) as our classifier to predict malonylation sites. Our results demonstrate that Mal-Light is able to significantly improve malonylation site prediction performance compared to previous studies found in the literature. Using Mal-Light we achieve Matthew's correlation coefficient (MCC) of 0.74 and 0.60, Accuracy of 86.66% and 79.51%, Sensitivity of 78.26% and 67.27%, and Specificity of 95.05% and 91.75%, for Homo Sapiens and Mus Musculus proteins, respectively. Mal-Light is implemented as an online predictor which is publicly available at: (http://brl.uiu.ac.bd/MalLight/).
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- WAKIL AHMAD
- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, United City, Madani Avenue, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, United City, Madani Avenue, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
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- Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, 20742, USA
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- Institute for Integrated and Intelligent Systems, Griffith University, Brisbane, QLD-4111, Australia
- Department of Medical Science Mathematics, Medical Research Institute, Tokyo Medical and Dental University (TMDU), Tokyo, 113-8510, Japan
- Laboratory for Medical Science Mathematics, RIKEN Center for Integrative Medical Sciences, Yokohama, 230-0045, Kanagawa, Japan
- School of Engineering and Physics, Faculty of Science Technology and Environment, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji
- CREST, JST, Tokyo, 102-8666, Japan
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, United City, Madani Avenue, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
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- Department of Computer Science, Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD, 21251, USA
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- Department of Computer Science and Engineering, United International University, United City, Madani Avenue, Dhaka 1212, Bangladesh
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Held JM. Redox Systems Biology: Harnessing the Sentinels of the Cysteine Redoxome. Antioxid Redox Signal 2020; 32:659-676. [PMID: 31368359 PMCID: PMC7047077 DOI: 10.1089/ars.2019.7725] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/07/2019] [Revised: 07/30/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2019] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Significance: Cellular redox processes are highly interconnected, yet not in equilibrium, and governed by a wide range of biochemical parameters. Technological advances continue refining how specific redox processes are regulated, but broad understanding of the dynamic interconnectivity between cellular redox modules remains limited. Systems biology investigates multiple components in complex environments and can provide integrative insights into the multifaceted cellular redox state. This review describes the state of the art in redox systems biology as well as provides an updated perspective and practical guide for harnessing thousands of cysteine sensors in the redoxome for multiparameter characterization of cellular redox networks. Recent Advances: Redox systems biology has been applied to genome-scale models and large public datasets, challenged common conceptions, and provided new insights that complement reductionist approaches. Advances in public knowledge and user-friendly tools for proteome-wide annotation of cysteine sentinels can now leverage cysteine redox proteomics datasets to provide spatial, functional, and protein structural information. Critical Issues: Careful consideration of available analytical approaches is needed to broadly characterize the systems-level properties of redox signaling networks and be experimentally feasible. The cysteine redoxome is an informative focal point since it integrates many aspects of redox biology. The mechanisms and redox modules governing cysteine redox regulation, cysteine oxidation assays, proteome-wide annotation of the biophysical and biochemical properties of individual cysteines, and their clinical application are discussed. Future Directions: Investigating the cysteine redoxome at a systems level will uncover new insights into the mechanisms of selectivity and context dependence of redox signaling networks.
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- Jason M. Held
- Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
- Department of Anesthesiology, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
- Siteman Cancer Center, Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri
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RF-MaloSite and DL-Malosite: Methods based on random forest and deep learning to identify malonylation sites. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2020; 18:852-860. [PMID: 32322367 PMCID: PMC7160427 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2020.02.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2019] [Revised: 01/27/2020] [Accepted: 02/19/2020] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Malonylation, which has recently emerged as an important lysine modification, regulates diverse biological activities and has been implicated in several pervasive disorders, including cardiovascular disease and cancer. However, conventional global proteomics analysis using tandem mass spectrometry can be time-consuming, expensive and technically challenging. Therefore, to complement and extend existing experimental methods for malonylation site identification, we developed two novel computational methods for malonylation site prediction based on random forest and deep learning machine learning algorithms, RF-MaloSite and DL-MaloSite, respectively. DL-MaloSite requires the primary amino acid sequence as an input and RF-MaloSite utilizes a diverse set of biochemical, physiochemical and sequence-based features. While systematic assessment of performance metrics suggests that both ‘RF-MaloSite’ and ‘DL-MaloSite’ perform well in all metrics tested, our methods perform particularly well in the areas of accuracy, sensitivity and overall method performance (assessed by the Matthew’s Correlation Coefficient). For instance, RF-MaloSite exhibited MCC scores of 0.42 and 0.40 using 10-fold cross-validation and an independent test set, respectively. Meanwhile, DL-MaloSite was characterized by MCC scores of 0.51 and 0.49 based on 10-fold cross-validation and an independent set, respectively. Importantly, both methods exhibited efficiency scores that were on par or better than those achieved by existing malonylation site prediction methods. The identification of these sites may also provide important insights into the mechanisms of crosstalk between malonylation and other lysine modifications, such as acetylation, glutarylation and succinylation. To facilitate their use, both methods have been made freely available to the research community at https://github.com/dukkakc/DL-MaloSite-and-RF-MaloSite.
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Wang X, Li C, Li F, Sharma VS, Song J, Webb GI. SIMLIN: a bioinformatics tool for prediction of S-sulphenylation in the human proteome based on multi-stage ensemble-learning models. BMC Bioinformatics 2019; 20:602. [PMID: 31752668 PMCID: PMC6868744 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-019-3178-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2019] [Accepted: 10/28/2019] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND S-sulphenylation is a ubiquitous protein post-translational modification (PTM) where an S-hydroxyl (-SOH) bond is formed via the reversible oxidation on the Sulfhydryl group of cysteine (C). Recent experimental studies have revealed that S-sulphenylation plays critical roles in many biological functions, such as protein regulation and cell signaling. State-of-the-art bioinformatic advances have facilitated high-throughput in silico screening of protein S-sulphenylation sites, thereby significantly reducing the time and labour costs traditionally required for the experimental investigation of S-sulphenylation. RESULTS In this study, we have proposed a novel hybrid computational framework, termed SIMLIN, for accurate prediction of protein S-sulphenylation sites using a multi-stage neural-network based ensemble-learning model integrating both protein sequence derived and protein structural features. Benchmarking experiments against the current state-of-the-art predictors for S-sulphenylation demonstrated that SIMLIN delivered competitive prediction performance. The empirical studies on the independent testing dataset demonstrated that SIMLIN achieved 88.0% prediction accuracy and an AUC score of 0.82, which outperforms currently existing methods. CONCLUSIONS In summary, SIMLIN predicts human S-sulphenylation sites with high accuracy thereby facilitating biological hypothesis generation and experimental validation. The web server, datasets, and online instructions are freely available at http://simlin.erc.monash.edu/ for academic purposes.
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- Xiaochuan Wang
- Monash Centre for Data Science, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia
- Division of Cancer Epidemiology, Cancer Council Victoria, Melbourne, VIC 3004 Australia
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia
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- Monash Centre for Data Science, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia
- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia
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- Institute of Molecular Systems Biology, Department of Biology, ETH Zürich, 8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Monash Centre for Data Science, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia
- Infection and Immunity Program, Biomedicine Discovery Institute and Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia
- ARC Centre of Excellence for Advanced Molecular Imaging, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia
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- Monash Centre for Data Science, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Melbourne, VIC 3800 Australia
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He W, Wei L, Zou Q. Research progress in protein posttranslational modification site prediction. Brief Funct Genomics 2018; 18:220-229. [DOI: 10.1093/bfgp/ely039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/18/2018] [Revised: 11/15/2018] [Accepted: 11/22/2018] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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AbstractPosttranslational modifications (PTMs) play an important role in regulating protein folding, activity and function and are involved in almost all cellular processes. Identification of PTMs of proteins is the basis for elucidating the mechanisms of cell biology and disease treatments. Compared with the laboriousness of equivalent experimental work, PTM prediction using various machine-learning methods can provide accurate, simple and rapid research solutions and generate valuable information for further laboratory studies. In this review, we manually curate most of the bioinformatics tools published since 2008. We also summarize the approaches for predicting ubiquitination sites and glycosylation sites. Moreover, we discuss the challenges of current PTM bioinformatics tools and look forward to future research possibilities.
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- Wenying He
- School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Technology, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
- Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China
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