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Kim S, Mollaei P, Antony A, Magar R, Barati Farimani A. GPCR-BERT: Interpreting Sequential Design of G Protein-Coupled Receptors Using Protein Language Models. J Chem Inf Model 2024; 64:1134-1144. [PMID: 38340054 PMCID: PMC10900288 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.3c01706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/22/2023] [Revised: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 01/29/2024] [Indexed: 02/12/2024]
Abstract
With the rise of transformers and large language models (LLMs) in chemistry and biology, new avenues for the design and understanding of therapeutics have been opened up to the scientific community. Protein sequences can be modeled as language and can take advantage of recent advances in LLMs, specifically with the abundance of our access to the protein sequence data sets. In this letter, we developed the GPCR-BERT model for understanding the sequential design of G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs). GPCRs are the target of over one-third of Food and Drug Administration-approved pharmaceuticals. However, there is a lack of comprehensive understanding regarding the relationship among amino acid sequence, ligand selectivity, and conformational motifs (such as NPxxY, CWxP, and E/DRY). By utilizing the pretrained protein model (Prot-Bert) and fine-tuning with prediction tasks of variations in the motifs, we were able to shed light on several relationships between residues in the binding pocket and some of the conserved motifs. To achieve this, we took advantage of attention weights and hidden states of the model that are interpreted to extract the extent of contributions of amino acids in dictating the type of masked ones. The fine-tuned models demonstrated high accuracy in predicting hidden residues within the motifs. In addition, the analysis of embedding was performed over 3D structures to elucidate the higher-order interactions within the conformations of the receptors.
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- Seongwon Kim
- Department
of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department
of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department
of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon
University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Machine
Learning Department, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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Meng Q, Guo F, Wang E, Tang J. ComDock: A novel approach for protein-protein docking with an efficient fusing strategy. Comput Biol Med 2023; 167:107660. [PMID: 37944303 DOI: 10.1016/j.compbiomed.2023.107660] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2023] [Revised: 10/08/2023] [Accepted: 10/31/2023] [Indexed: 11/12/2023]
Abstract
Protein-protein interaction plays an important role in studying the mechanism of protein functions from the structural perspective. Molecular docking is a powerful approach to detect protein-protein complexes using computational tools, due to the high cost and time-consuming of the traditional experimental methods. Among existing technologies, the template-based method utilizes the structural information of known homologous 3D complexes as available and reliable templates to achieve high accuracy and low computational complexity. However, the performance of the template-based method depends on the quality and quantity of templates. When insufficient or even no templates, the ab initio docking method is necessary and largely enriches the docking conformations. Therefore, it's a feasible strategy to fuse the effectivity of the template-based model and the universality of ab initio model to improve the docking performance. In this study, we construct a new, diverse, comprehensive template library derived from PDB, containing 77,685 complexes. We propose a template-based method (named TemDock), which retrieves the evolutionary relationship between the target sequence and samples in the template library and transfers similar structural information. Then, the target structure is built by superposing on the homologous template complex with TM-align. Moreover, we develop a consensus-based method (named ComDock) to integrate our TemDock and an existing ab initio method (ZDOCK). On 105 targets with templates from Benchmark 5.0, the TemDock and ComDock achieve a success rate of 68.57 % and 71.43 % in the top 10 conformations, respectively. Compared with the HDOCK, ComDock obtains better I-RMSD of hit configurations on 9 targets and more hit models in the top 100 conformations. As an efficient method for protein-protein docking, the ComDock is expected to study protein-protein recognition and reveal the various biological passways that are critical for developing drug discovery. The final results are stored at https://github.com/guofei-tju/mqz_ComDock_docking.
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- Qiaozhen Meng
- College of Intelligence and Computing, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China
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- School of Computer Science and Engineering, Central South University, Changsha, China.
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- College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China; Zhejiang Laboratory, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
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- Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenzhen, China.
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Dongol Y, Wilson DT, Daly NL, Cardoso FC, Lewis RJ. Structure-function and rational design of a spider toxin Ssp1a at human voltage-gated sodium channel subtypes. Front Pharmacol 2023; 14:1277143. [PMID: 38034993 PMCID: PMC10682951 DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2023.1277143] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/14/2023] [Accepted: 10/23/2023] [Indexed: 12/02/2023] Open
Abstract
The structure-function and optimization studies of NaV-inhibiting spider toxins have focused on developing selective inhibitors for peripheral pain-sensing NaV1.7. With several NaV subtypes emerging as potential therapeutic targets, structure-function analysis of NaV-inhibiting spider toxins at such subtypes is warranted. Using the recently discovered spider toxin Ssp1a, this study extends the structure-function relationships of NaV-inhibiting spider toxins beyond NaV1.7 to include the epilepsy target NaV1.2 and the pain target NaV1.3. Based on these results and docking studies, we designed analogues for improved potency and/or subtype-selectivity, with S7R-E18K-rSsp1a and N14D-P27R-rSsp1a identified as promising leads. S7R-E18K-rSsp1a increased the rSsp1a potency at these three NaV subtypes, especially at NaV1.3 (∼10-fold), while N14D-P27R-rSsp1a enhanced NaV1.2/1.7 selectivity over NaV1.3. This study highlights the challenge of developing subtype-selective spider toxin inhibitors across multiple NaV subtypes that might offer a more effective therapeutic approach. The findings of this study provide a basis for further rational design of Ssp1a and related NaSpTx1 homologs targeting NaV1.2, NaV1.3 and/or NaV1.7 as research tools and therapeutic leads.
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- Yashad Dongol
- Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Australian Institute of Tropical Health and Medicine, James Cook University, Cairns, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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- Centre for Chemistry and Drug Discovery, Institute for Molecular Bioscience, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, Australia
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Wang L, Li FL, Ma XY, Cang Y, Bai F. PPI-Miner: A Structure and Sequence Motif Co-Driven Protein-Protein Interaction Mining and Modeling Computational Method. J Chem Inf Model 2022; 62:6160-6171. [PMID: 36448715 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c01033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/02/2022]
Abstract
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play important roles in biological processes of life, and predicting PPIs becomes a critical scientific issue of concern. Most PPIs occur through small domains or motifs (fragments), which are challenging and laborious to map by standard biochemical approaches because they generally require the cloning of several truncation mutants. Here, we present a computational method, named as PPI-Miner, to fish potential protein interacting partners utilizing protein motifs as queries. In brief, this work first developed a motif-matching algorithm designed to identify the proteins that contain sequential or structural similar motifs with the given query motif. Being aligned to the query motif, the binding mode of the discovered motif and its receptor protein will be initially determined to be used to build PPI complexes accordingly. Eventually, a PPI complex structure could be built and optimized with a designed automatic protocol. Besides discovering PPIs, PPI-Miner can also be applied to other areas, i.e., the rational design of molecular glues and protein vaccines. In this work, PPI-Miner was employed to mine the potential cereblon (CRBN) substrates from human proteome. As a result, 1,739 candidates were predicted, and 16 of them have been experimentally validated in previous studies. The source code of PPI-Miner can be obtained from the GitHub repository (https://github.com/Wang-Lin-boop/PPI-Miner), the webserver is freely available for users (https://bailab.siais.shanghaitech.edu.cn/services/ppi-miner), and the database of predicted CRBN substrates is accessible at https://bailab.siais.shanghaitech.edu.cn/services/crbn-subslib.
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- Shanghai Clinical Research and Trial Center, Shanghai201210, China
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Soleymani F, Paquet E, Viktor H, Michalowski W, Spinello D. Protein-protein interaction prediction with deep learning: A comprehensive review. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2022; 20:5316-5341. [PMID: 36212542 PMCID: PMC9520216 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2022.08.070] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/22/2022] [Revised: 08/29/2022] [Accepted: 08/30/2022] [Indexed: 11/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Most proteins perform their biological function by interacting with themselves or other molecules. Thus, one may obtain biological insights into protein functions, disease prevalence, and therapy development by identifying protein-protein interactions (PPI). However, finding the interacting and non-interacting protein pairs through experimental approaches is labour-intensive and time-consuming, owing to the variety of proteins. Hence, protein-protein interaction and protein-ligand binding problems have drawn attention in the fields of bioinformatics and computer-aided drug discovery. Deep learning methods paved the way for scientists to predict the 3-D structure of proteins from genomes, predict the functions and attributes of a protein, and modify and design new proteins to provide desired functions. This review focuses on recent deep learning methods applied to problems including predicting protein functions, protein-protein interaction and their sites, protein-ligand binding, and protein design.
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- Farzan Soleymani
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- National Research Council, 1200 Montreal Road, Ottawa, ON K1A 0R6, Canada
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- School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, ON, Canada
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON, Canada
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Pollet L, Lambourne L, Xia Y. Structural Determinants of Yeast Protein-Protein Interaction Interface Evolution at the Residue Level. J Mol Biol 2022; 434:167750. [PMID: 35850298 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2022.167750] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Revised: 06/09/2022] [Accepted: 07/12/2022] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
Abstract
Interfaces of contact between proteins play important roles in determining the proper structure and function of protein-protein interactions (PPIs). Therefore, to fully understand PPIs, we need to better understand the evolutionary design principles of PPI interfaces. Previous studies have uncovered that interfacial sites are more evolutionarily conserved than other surface protein sites. Yet, little is known about the nature and relative importance of evolutionary constraints in PPI interfaces. Here, we explore constraints imposed by the structure of the microenvironment surrounding interfacial residues on residue evolutionary rate using a large dataset of over 700 structural models of baker's yeast PPIs. We find that interfacial residues are, on average, systematically more conserved than all other residues with a similar degree of total burial as measured by relative solvent accessibility (RSA). Besides, we find that RSA of the residue when the PPI is formed is a better predictor of interfacial residue evolutionary rate than RSA in the monomer state. Furthermore, we investigate four structure-based measures of residue interfacial involvement, including change in RSA upon binding (ΔRSA), number of residue-residue contacts across the interface, and distance from the center or the periphery of the interface. Integrated modeling for evolutionary rate prediction in interfaces shows that ΔRSA plays a dominant role among the four measures of interfacial involvement, with minor, but independent contributions from other measures. These results yield insight into the evolutionary design of interfaces, improving our understanding of the role that structure plays in the molecular evolution of PPIs at the residue level.
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- Léah Pollet
- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
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- Center for Cancer Systems Biology (CCSB), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Genetics, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Cancer Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.
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- Department of Bioengineering, Faculty of Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada.
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Chen KH, Hu YJ. Residue-Residue Interaction Prediction via Stacked Meta-Learning. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms22126393. [PMID: 34203772 PMCID: PMC8232778 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22126393] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/30/2021] [Revised: 06/06/2021] [Accepted: 06/13/2021] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are the basis of most biological functions determined by residue-residue interactions (RRIs). Predicting residue pairs responsible for the interaction is crucial for understanding the cause of a disease and drug design. Computational approaches that considered inexpensive and faster solutions for RRI prediction have been widely used to predict protein interfaces for further analysis. This study presents RRI-Meta, an ensemble meta-learning-based method for RRI prediction. Its hierarchical learning structure comprises four base classifiers and one meta-classifier to integrate predictive strengths from different classifiers. It considers multiple feature types, including sequence-, structure-, and neighbor-based features, for characterizing other properties of a residue interaction environment to better distinguish between noninteracting and interacting residues. We conducted the same experiments using the same data as previously reported in the literature to demonstrate RRI-Meta's performance. Experimental results show that RRI-Meta is superior to several current prediction tools. Additionally, to analyze the factors that affect the performance of RRI-Meta, we conducted a comparative case study using different protein complexes.
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- Kuan-Hsi Chen
- College of Computer Science, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan;
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- Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 300093, Taiwan
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +886-3-571-2121
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Slater O, Miller B, Kontoyianni M. Decoding Protein-protein Interactions: An Overview. Curr Top Med Chem 2021; 20:855-882. [PMID: 32101126 DOI: 10.2174/1568026620666200226105312] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2019] [Revised: 11/27/2019] [Accepted: 11/27/2019] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
Abstract
Drug discovery has focused on the paradigm "one drug, one target" for a long time. However, small molecules can act at multiple macromolecular targets, which serves as the basis for drug repurposing. In an effort to expand the target space, and given advances in X-ray crystallography, protein-protein interactions have become an emerging focus area of drug discovery enterprises. Proteins interact with other biomolecules and it is this intricate network of interactions that determines the behavior of the system and its biological processes. In this review, we briefly discuss networks in disease, followed by computational methods for protein-protein complex prediction. Computational methodologies and techniques employed towards objectives such as protein-protein docking, protein-protein interactions, and interface predictions are described extensively. Docking aims at producing a complex between proteins, while interface predictions identify a subset of residues on one protein that could interact with a partner, and protein-protein interaction sites address whether two proteins interact. In addition, approaches to predict hot spots and binding sites are presented along with a representative example of our internal project on the chemokine CXC receptor 3 B-isoform and predictive modeling with IP10 and PF4.
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- Olivia Slater
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62026, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62026, United States
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- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL 62026, United States
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Han Y, Cheng L, Sun W. Analysis of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks through Computational Approaches. Protein Pept Lett 2020; 27:265-278. [PMID: 31692419 DOI: 10.2174/0929866526666191105142034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/29/2019] [Revised: 05/08/2019] [Accepted: 09/26/2019] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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The interactions among proteins and genes are extremely important for cellular functions. Molecular interactions at protein or gene levels can be used to construct interaction networks in which the interacting species are categorized based on direct interactions or functional similarities. Compared with the limited experimental techniques, various computational tools make it possible to analyze, filter, and combine the interaction data to get comprehensive information about the biological pathways. By the efficient way of integrating experimental findings in discovering PPIs and computational techniques for prediction, the researchers have been able to gain many valuable data on PPIs, including some advanced databases. Moreover, many useful tools and visualization programs enable the researchers to establish, annotate, and analyze biological networks. We here review and list the computational methods, databases, and tools for protein-protein interaction prediction.
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- Ying Han
- Cardiovascular Department, The Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- College of Bioinformatics Science and Technology, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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- Cardiovascular Department, The First Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, Harbin, China
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Heermann T, Ramm B, Glaser S, Schwille P. Local Self-Enhancement of MinD Membrane Binding in Min Protein Pattern Formation. J Mol Biol 2020; 432:3191-3204. [PMID: 32199984 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2020.03.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2019] [Revised: 03/07/2020] [Accepted: 03/09/2020] [Indexed: 01/06/2023]
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The proteins MinD, MinE and MinC are constitutive for the spatiotemporal organization of cell division in Escherichia coli, in particular, for positioning the division machinery at mid-cell. To achieve this function, the ATPase MinD and the ATPase-activating protein MinE undergo coordinated pole-to-pole oscillations and have thus become a paradigm for protein pattern formation in biology. The exact molecular mechanisms enabling MinDE self-organization, and particularly the role of cooperativity in the membrane binding of MinD, thought to be a key requirement, have remained poorly understood. However, for bottom-up synthetic biology aiming at a de novo design of key cellular features, elucidating these mechanisms is of great relevance. By combining in vitro reconstitution with rationally guided mutagenesis of MinD, we found that when bound to membranes, MinD displays new interfaces for multimerization, which are distinct from the canonical MinD dimerization site. We propose that these additional transient interactions contribute to the local self-enhancement of MinD at the membrane, while their relative lability maintains the structural plasticity required for MinDE wave propagation. This could represent a powerful structural regulation feature not reported so far for self-organizing proteins.
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- Tamara Heermann
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Planegg, Germany
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Planegg, Germany
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Planegg, Germany
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Biophysics, Max Planck Institute of Biochemistry, Am Klopferspitz 18, 82152 Planegg, Germany.
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Ribeiro VS, Santana CA, Fassio AV, Cerqueira FR, da Silveira CH, Romanelli JPR, Patarroyo-Vargas A, Oliveira MGA, Gonçalves-Almeida V, Izidoro SC, de Melo-Minardi RC, Silveira SDA. visGReMLIN: graph mining-based detection and visualization of conserved motifs at 3D protein-ligand interface at the atomic level. BMC Bioinformatics 2020; 21:80. [PMID: 32164574 PMCID: PMC7068867 DOI: 10.1186/s12859-020-3347-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/15/2022] Open
Abstract
Background Interactions between proteins and non-proteic small molecule ligands play important roles in the biological processes of living systems. Thus, the development of computational methods to support our understanding of the ligand-receptor recognition process is of fundamental importance since these methods are a major step towards ligand prediction, target identification, lead discovery, and more. This article presents visGReMLIN, a web server that couples a graph mining-based strategy to detect motifs at the protein-ligand interface with an interactive platform to visually explore and interpret these motifs in the context of protein-ligand interfaces. Results To illustrate the potential of visGReMLIN, we conducted two cases in which our strategy was compared with previous experimentally and computationally determined results. visGReMLIN allowed us to detect patterns previously documented in the literature in a totally visual manner. In addition, we found some motifs that we believe are relevant to protein-ligand interactions in the analyzed datasets. Conclusions We aimed to build a visual analytics-oriented web server to detect and visualize common motifs at the protein-ligand interface. visGReMLIN motifs can support users in gaining insights on the key atoms/residues responsible for protein-ligand interactions in a dataset of complexes.
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- Vagner S Ribeiro
- Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Production Engineering, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Petrópolis, 25650-050, Brazil
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Advanced Campus at Itabira, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Itabira, 35903-087, Brazil
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Advanced Campus at Itabira, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Itabira, 35903-087, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil.,Instituto de Biotecnologia aplicada à Agropecuária (BIOAGRO), Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil
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- Department of Biochemistry and Immunology, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Advanced Campus at Itabira, Universidade Federal de Itajubá, Itabira, 35903-087, Brazil
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- Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, 31270-901, Brazil
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- Department of Computer Science, Universidade Federal de Viçosa, Viçosa, 36570-900, Brazil. .,European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, CB10 1SD, UK.
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Macalino SJY, Basith S, Clavio NAB, Chang H, Kang S, Choi S. Evolution of In Silico Strategies for Protein-Protein Interaction Drug Discovery. Molecules 2018; 23:E1963. [PMID: 30082644 PMCID: PMC6222862 DOI: 10.3390/molecules23081963] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2018] [Revised: 08/03/2018] [Accepted: 08/04/2018] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
The advent of advanced molecular modeling software, big data analytics, and high-speed processing units has led to the exponential evolution of modern drug discovery and better insights into complex biological processes and disease networks. This has progressively steered current research interests to understanding protein-protein interaction (PPI) systems that are related to a number of relevant diseases, such as cancer, neurological illnesses, metabolic disorders, etc. However, targeting PPIs are challenging due to their "undruggable" binding interfaces. In this review, we focus on the current obstacles that impede PPI drug discovery, and how recent discoveries and advances in in silico approaches can alleviate these barriers to expedite the search for potential leads, as shown in several exemplary studies. We will also discuss about currently available information on PPI compounds and systems, along with their usefulness in molecular modeling. Finally, we conclude by presenting the limits of in silico application in drug discovery and offer a perspective in the field of computer-aided PPI drug discovery.
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- Stephani Joy Y Macalino
- College of Pharmacy and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea.
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- College of Pharmacy and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea.
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- College of Pharmacy and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea.
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- College of Pharmacy and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea.
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- College of Pharmacy and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea.
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- College of Pharmacy and Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 03760, Korea.
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Budowski-Tal I, Kolodny R, Mandel-Gutfreund Y. A Novel Geometry-Based Approach to Infer Protein Interface Similarity. Sci Rep 2018; 8:8192. [PMID: 29844500 PMCID: PMC5974305 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-26497-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2017] [Accepted: 05/10/2018] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
Abstract
The protein interface is key to understand protein function, providing a vital insight on how proteins interact with each other and with other molecules. Over the years, many computational methods to compare protein structures were developed, yet evaluating interface similarity remains a very difficult task. Here, we present PatchBag – a geometry based method for efficient comparison of protein surfaces and interfaces. PatchBag is a Bag-Of-Words approach, which represents complex objects as vectors, enabling to search interface similarity in a highly efficient manner. Using a novel framework for evaluating interface similarity, we show that PatchBag performance is comparable to state-of-the-art alignment-based structural comparison methods. The great advantage of PatchBag is that it does not rely on sequence or fold information, thus enabling to detect similarities between interfaces in unrelated proteins. We propose that PatchBag can contribute to reveal novel evolutionary and functional relationships between protein interfaces.
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- Inbal Budowski-Tal
- Faculty of Biology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.,Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498838, Israel
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- Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, 3498838, Israel.
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- Faculty of Biology, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, 3200003, Israel.
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Yan Y, Wen Z, Wang X, Huang SY. Addressing recent docking challenges: A hybrid strategy to integrate template-based and free protein-protein docking. Proteins 2017; 85:497-512. [PMID: 28026062 DOI: 10.1002/prot.25234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 83] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/16/2016] [Revised: 12/15/2016] [Accepted: 12/16/2016] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Protein-protein docking is an important computational tool for predicting protein-protein interactions. With the rapid development of proteomics projects, more and more experimental binding information ranging from mutagenesis data to three-dimensional structures of protein complexes are becoming available. Therefore, how to appropriately incorporate the biological information into traditional ab initio docking has been an important issue and challenge in the field of protein-protein docking. To address these challenges, we have developed a Hybrid DOCKing protocol of template-based and template-free approaches, referred to as HDOCK. The basic procedure of HDOCK is to model the structures of individual components based on the template complex by a template-based method if a template is available; otherwise, the component structures will be modeled based on monomer proteins by regular homology modeling. Then, the complex structure of the component models is predicted by traditional protein-protein docking. With the HDOCK protocol, we have participated in the CPARI experiment for rounds 28-35. Out of the 25 CASP-CAPRI targets for oligomer modeling, our HDOCK protocol predicted correct models for 16 targets, ranking one of the top algorithms in this challenge. Our docking method also made correct predictions on other CAPRI challenges such as protein-peptide binding for 6 out of 8 targets and water predictions for 2 out of 2 targets. The advantage of our hybrid docking approach over pure template-based docking was further confirmed by a comparative evaluation on 20 CASP-CAPRI targets. Proteins 2017; 85:497-512. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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- Yumeng Yan
- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Hubei, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Hubei, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Hubei, 430074, People's Republic of China
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- School of Physics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan Hubei, 430074, People's Republic of China
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Computational Approaches for Predicting Binding Partners, Interface Residues, and Binding Affinity of Protein-Protein Complexes. Methods Mol Biol 2017; 1484:237-253. [PMID: 27787830 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-6406-2_16] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/20/2022]
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Studying protein-protein interactions leads to a better understanding of the underlying principles of several biological pathways. Cost and labor-intensive experimental techniques suggest the need for computational methods to complement them. Several such state-of-the-art methods have been reported for analyzing diverse aspects such as predicting binding partners, interface residues, and binding affinity for protein-protein complexes with reliable performance. However, there are specific drawbacks for different methods that indicate the need for their improvement. This review highlights various available computational algorithms for analyzing diverse aspects of protein-protein interactions and endorses the necessity for developing new robust methods for gaining deep insights about protein-protein interactions.
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Du T, Liao L, Wu CH. Enhancing interacting residue prediction with integrated contact matrix prediction in protein-protein interaction. EURASIP JOURNAL ON BIOINFORMATICS & SYSTEMS BIOLOGY 2016; 2016:17. [PMID: 27818677 PMCID: PMC5075339 DOI: 10.1186/s13637-016-0051-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2016] [Accepted: 09/25/2016] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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Identifying the residues in a protein that are involved in protein-protein interaction and identifying the contact matrix for a pair of interacting proteins are two computational tasks at different levels of an in-depth analysis of protein-protein interaction. Various methods for solving these two problems have been reported in the literature. However, the interacting residue prediction and contact matrix prediction were handled by and large independently in those existing methods, though intuitively good prediction of interacting residues will help with predicting the contact matrix. In this work, we developed a novel protein interacting residue prediction system, contact matrix-interaction profile hidden Markov model (CM-ipHMM), with the integration of contact matrix prediction and the ipHMM interaction residue prediction. We propose to leverage what is learned from the contact matrix prediction and utilize the predicted contact matrix as "feedback" to enhance the interaction residue prediction. The CM-ipHMM model showed significant improvement over the previous method that uses the ipHMM for predicting interaction residues only. It indicates that the downstream contact matrix prediction could help the interaction site prediction.
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- Tianchuan Du
- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA
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- Department of Computer and Information Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716 USA
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Du T, Liao L, Wu CH, Sun B. Prediction of residue-residue contact matrix for protein-protein interaction with Fisher score features and deep learning. Methods 2016; 110:97-105. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ymeth.2016.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/13/2016] [Accepted: 06/03/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Tuncbag N, Gursoy A, Keskin O, Nussinov R. The potential impact of recent developments in three-dimensional quantitative interaction proteomics on structural biology. Expert Rev Proteomics 2016; 13:447-9. [PMID: 27104235 PMCID: PMC4938151 DOI: 10.1080/14789450.2016.1182023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/22/2023]
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- Nurcan Tuncbag
- Middle East Technical University, Graduate School of Informatics, Department of Health Informatics, Ankara, Turkey
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- Koc University, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Istanbul, Turkey
- Koc University, Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Koc University, Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Istanbul, Turkey
- Koc University, Computer Engineering, College of Engineering, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, Maryland, United States
- Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Sackler Institute of Molecular Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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Keskin O, Tuncbag N, Gursoy A. Predicting Protein–Protein Interactions from the Molecular to the Proteome Level. Chem Rev 2016; 116:4884-909. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemrev.5b00683] [Citation(s) in RCA: 207] [Impact Index Per Article: 25.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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- Graduate
School of Informatics, Department of Health Informatics, Middle East Technical University, 06800 Ankara, Turkey
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Maheshwari S, Brylinski M. Predicted binding site information improves model ranking in protein docking using experimental and computer-generated target structures. BMC STRUCTURAL BIOLOGY 2015; 15:23. [PMID: 26597230 PMCID: PMC4657198 DOI: 10.1186/s12900-015-0050-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2015] [Accepted: 10/30/2015] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Background Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) mediate the vast majority of biological processes, therefore, significant efforts have been directed to investigate PPIs to fully comprehend cellular functions. Predicting complex structures is critical to reveal molecular mechanisms by which proteins operate. Despite recent advances in the development of new methods to model macromolecular assemblies, most current methodologies are designed to work with experimentally determined protein structures. However, because only computer-generated models are available for a large number of proteins in a given genome, computational tools should tolerate structural inaccuracies in order to perform the genome-wide modeling of PPIs. Results To address this problem, we developed eRankPPI, an algorithm for the identification of near-native conformations generated by protein docking using experimental structures as well as protein models. The scoring function implemented in eRankPPI employs multiple features including interface probability estimates calculated by eFindSitePPI and a novel contact-based symmetry score. In comparative benchmarks using representative datasets of homo- and hetero-complexes, we show that eRankPPI consistently outperforms state-of-the-art algorithms improving the success rate by ~10 %. Conclusions eRankPPI was designed to bridge the gap between the volume of sequence data, the evidence of binary interactions, and the atomic details of pharmacologically relevant protein complexes. Tolerating structure imperfections in computer-generated models opens up a possibility to conduct the exhaustive structure-based reconstruction of PPI networks across proteomes. The methods and datasets used in this study are available at www.brylinski.org/erankppi.
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- Surabhi Maheshwari
- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA. .,Center for Computation & Technology, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803, USA.
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Muratcioglu S, Guven-Maiorov E, Keskin Ö, Gursoy A. Advances in template-based protein docking by utilizing interfaces towards completing structural interactome. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2015; 35:87-92. [PMID: 26539658 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2015.10.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2015] [Revised: 10/09/2015] [Accepted: 10/13/2015] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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The increase in the number of structurally determined protein complexes strengthens template-based docking (TBD) methods for modelling protein-protein interactions (PPIs). These methods utilize the known structures of protein complexes as templates to predict the quaternary structure of the target proteins. The templates may be partial or complete structures. Interface based (partial) methods have recently gained interest due in part to the observation that the interface regions are reusable. We describe how available template interfaces can be used to obtain the structural models of protein interactions. Despite the agreement that a majority of the protein complexes can be modelled using the available Protein Data Bank (PDB) structures, a handful of studies argue that we need more template proteins to increase the structural coverage of PPIs. We also discuss the performance of the interface TBD methods at large scale, and the significance of capturing multiple conformations for improving accuracy.
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- Serena Muratcioglu
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey; Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey; Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey; Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Computer Engineering, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey; Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, Koc University, 34450 Istanbul, Turkey.
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Soner S, Ozbek P, Garzon JI, Ben-Tal N, Haliloglu T. DynaFace: Discrimination between Obligatory and Non-obligatory Protein-Protein Interactions Based on the Complex's Dynamics. PLoS Comput Biol 2015; 11:e1004461. [PMID: 26506003 PMCID: PMC4623975 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004461] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2015] [Accepted: 07/08/2015] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interfaces have been evolutionarily-designed to enable transduction between the interacting proteins. Thus, we hypothesize that analysis of the dynamics of the complex can reveal details about the nature of the interaction, and in particular whether it is obligatory, i.e., persists throughout the entire lifetime of the proteins, or not. Indeed, normal mode analysis, using the Gaussian network model, shows that for the most part obligatory and non-obligatory complexes differ in their decomposition into dynamic domains, i.e., the mobile elements of the protein complex. The dynamic domains of obligatory complexes often mix segments from the interacting chains, and the hinges between them do not overlap with the interface between the chains. In contrast, in non-obligatory complexes the interface often hinges between dynamic domains, held together through few anchor residues on one side of the interface that interact with their counterpart grooves in the other end. In automatic analysis, 117 of 139 obligatory (84.2%) and 203 of 246 non-obligatory (82.5%) complexes are correctly classified by our method: DynaFace. We further use DynaFace to predict obligatory and non-obligatory interactions among a set of 300 putative protein complexes. DynaFace is available at: http://safir.prc.boun.edu.tr/dynaface.
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- Seren Soner
- Department of Computer Engineering and Polymer Research Center, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Department of Bioengineering, Marmara University, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Departments of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics and Systems Biology and Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, George S. Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Chemical Engineering and Polymer Research Center, Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey
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Petukh M, Li M, Alexov E. Predicting Binding Free Energy Change Caused by Point Mutations with Knowledge-Modified MM/PBSA Method. PLoS Comput Biol 2015; 11:e1004276. [PMID: 26146996 PMCID: PMC4492929 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1004276] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2015] [Accepted: 04/09/2015] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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A new methodology termed Single Amino Acid Mutation based change in Binding free Energy (SAAMBE) was developed to predict the changes of the binding free energy caused by mutations. The method utilizes 3D structures of the corresponding protein-protein complexes and takes advantage of both approaches: sequence- and structure-based methods. The method has two components: a MM/PBSA-based component, and an additional set of statistical terms delivered from statistical investigation of physico-chemical properties of protein complexes. While the approach is rigid body approach and does not explicitly consider plausible conformational changes caused by the binding, the effect of conformational changes, including changes away from binding interface, on electrostatics are mimicked with amino acid specific dielectric constants. This provides significant improvement of SAAMBE predictions as indicated by better match against experimentally determined binding free energy changes over 1300 mutations in 43 proteins. The final benchmarking resulted in a very good agreement with experimental data (correlation coefficient 0.624) while the algorithm being fast enough to allow for large-scale calculations (the average time is less than a minute per mutation).
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- Marharyta Petukh
- Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, United States of America
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- Computational Biophysics and Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, United States of America
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Aumentado-Armstrong TT, Istrate B, Murgita RA. Algorithmic approaches to protein-protein interaction site prediction. Algorithms Mol Biol 2015; 10:7. [PMID: 25713596 PMCID: PMC4338852 DOI: 10.1186/s13015-015-0033-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2014] [Accepted: 01/07/2015] [Indexed: 12/19/2022] Open
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Interaction sites on protein surfaces mediate virtually all biological activities, and their identification holds promise for disease treatment and drug design. Novel algorithmic approaches for the prediction of these sites have been produced at a rapid rate, and the field has seen significant advancement over the past decade. However, the most current methods have not yet been reviewed in a systematic and comprehensive fashion. Herein, we describe the intricacies of the biological theory, datasets, and features required for modern protein-protein interaction site (PPIS) prediction, and present an integrative analysis of the state-of-the-art algorithms and their performance. First, the major sources of data used by predictors are reviewed, including training sets, evaluation sets, and methods for their procurement. Then, the features employed and their importance in the biological characterization of PPISs are explored. This is followed by a discussion of the methodologies adopted in contemporary prediction programs, as well as their relative performance on the datasets most recently used for evaluation. In addition, the potential utility that PPIS identification holds for rational drug design, hotspot prediction, and computational molecular docking is described. Finally, an analysis of the most promising areas for future development of the field is presented.
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Talwar P, Silla Y, Grover S, Gupta M, Grewal GK, Kukreti R. Systems Pharmacology and Pharmacogenomics for Drug Discovery and Development. SYSTEMS AND SYNTHETIC BIOLOGY 2015. [DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-9514-2_9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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Yugandhar K, Gromiha MM. Protein–protein binding affinity prediction from amino acid sequence. Bioinformatics 2014; 30:3583-9. [DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btu580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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Assessing the applicability of template-based protein docking in the twilight zone. Structure 2014; 22:1356-1362. [PMID: 25156427 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2014.07.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/22/2014] [Revised: 07/24/2014] [Accepted: 07/31/2014] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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The structural modeling of protein interactions in the absence of close homologous templates is a challenging task. Recently, template-based docking methods have emerged to exploit local structural similarities to help ab-initio protocols provide reliable 3D models for protein interactions. In this work, we critically assess the performance of template-based docking in the twilight zone. Our results show that, while it is possible to find templates for nearly all known interactions, the quality of the obtained models is rather limited. We can increase the precision of the models at expenses of coverage, but it drastically reduces the potential applicability of the method, as illustrated by the whole-interactome modeling of nine organisms. Template-based docking is likely to play an important role in the structural characterization of the interaction space, but we still need to improve the repertoire of structural templates onto which we can reliably model protein complexes.
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Lua RC, Marciano DC, Katsonis P, Adikesavan AK, Wilkins AD, Lichtarge O. Prediction and redesign of protein-protein interactions. PROGRESS IN BIOPHYSICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 2014; 116:194-202. [PMID: 24878423 DOI: 10.1016/j.pbiomolbio.2014.05.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2014] [Revised: 05/02/2014] [Accepted: 05/17/2014] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Understanding the molecular basis of protein function remains a central goal of biology, with the hope to elucidate the role of human genes in health and in disease, and to rationally design therapies through targeted molecular perturbations. We review here some of the computational techniques and resources available for characterizing a critical aspect of protein function - those mediated by protein-protein interactions (PPI). We describe several applications and recent successes of the Evolutionary Trace (ET) in identifying molecular events and shapes that underlie protein function and specificity in both eukaryotes and prokaryotes. ET is a part of analytical approaches based on the successes and failures of evolution that enable the rational control of PPI.
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- Rhonald C Lua
- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA
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- Department of Molecular and Human Genetics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Verna and Marrs McLean Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA; Computational and Integrative Biomedical Research Center, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX 77030, USA.
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Acuner-Ozbabacan ES, Engin BH, Guven-Maiorov E, Kuzu G, Muratcioglu S, Baspinar A, Chen Z, Van Waes C, Gursoy A, Keskin O, Nussinov R. The structural network of Interleukin-10 and its implications in inflammation and cancer. BMC Genomics 2014; 15 Suppl 4:S2. [PMID: 25056661 PMCID: PMC4083408 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2164-15-s4-s2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Background Inflammation has significant roles in all phases of tumor development, including initiation, progression and metastasis. Interleukin-10 (IL-10) is a well-known immuno-modulatory cytokine with an anti-inflammatory activity. Lack of IL-10 allows induction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and hinders anti-tumor immunity, thereby favoring tumor growth. The IL-10 network is among the most important paths linking cancer and inflammation. The simple node-and-edge network representation is useful, but limited, hampering the understanding of the mechanistic details of signaling pathways. Structural networks complete the missing parts, and provide details. The IL-10 structural network may shed light on the mechanisms through which disease-related mutations work and the pathogenesis of malignancies. Results Using PRISM (a PRotein Interactions by Structural Matching tool), we constructed the structural network of IL-10, which includes its first and second degree protein neighbor interactions. We predicted the structures of complexes involved in these interactions, thereby enriching the available structural data. In order to reveal the significance of the interactions, we exploited mutations identified in cancer patients, mapping them onto key proteins of this network. We analyzed the effect of these mutations on the interactions, and demonstrated a relation between these and inflammation and cancer. Our results suggest that mutations that disrupt the interactions of IL-10 with its receptors (IL-10RA and IL-10RB) and α2-macroglobulin (A2M) may enhance inflammation and modulate anti-tumor immunity. Likewise, mutations that weaken the A2M-APP (amyloid precursor protein) association may increase the proliferative effect of APP through preventing β-amyloid degradation by the A2M receptor, and mutations that abolish the A2M-Kallikrein-13 (KLK13) interaction may lead to cell proliferation and metastasis through the destructive effect of KLK13 on the extracellular matrix. Conclusions Prediction of protein-protein interactions through structural matching can enrich the available cellular pathways. In addition, the structural data of protein complexes suggest how oncogenic mutations influence the interactions and explain their potential impact on IL-10 signaling in cancer and inflammation.
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Yugandhar K, Gromiha MM. Feature selection and classification of protein-protein complexes based on their binding affinities using machine learning approaches. Proteins 2014; 82:2088-96. [PMID: 24648146 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24564] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2014] [Accepted: 03/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Protein-protein interactions are intrinsic to virtually every cellular process. Predicting the binding affinity of protein-protein complexes is one of the challenging problems in computational and molecular biology. In this work, we related sequence features of protein-protein complexes with their binding affinities using machine learning approaches. We set up a database of 185 protein-protein complexes for which the interacting pairs are heterodimers and their experimental binding affinities are available. On the other hand, we have developed a set of 610 features from the sequences of protein complexes and utilized Ranker search method, which is the combination of Attribute evaluator and Ranker method for selecting specific features. We have analyzed several machine learning algorithms to discriminate protein-protein complexes into high and low affinity groups based on their Kd values. Our results showed a 10-fold cross-validation accuracy of 76.1% with the combination of nine features using support vector machines. Further, we observed accuracy of 83.3% on an independent test set of 30 complexes. We suggest that our method would serve as an effective tool for identifying the interacting partners in protein-protein interaction networks and human-pathogen interactions based on the strength of interactions.
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- K Yugandhar
- Department of Biotechnology, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, Tamil Nadu, India
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Guven-Maiorov E, Acuner-Ozbabacan SE, Keskin O, Gursoy A, Nussinov R. Structural pathways of cytokines may illuminate their roles in regulation of cancer development and immunotherapy. Cancers (Basel) 2014; 6:663-83. [PMID: 24670367 PMCID: PMC4074797 DOI: 10.3390/cancers6020663] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2014] [Revised: 03/11/2014] [Accepted: 03/12/2014] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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Cytokines are messengers between tissues and the immune system. They play essential roles in cancer initiation, promotion, metastasis, and immunotherapy. Structural pathways of cytokine signaling which contain their interactions can help understand their action in the tumor microenvironment. Here, our aim is to provide an overview of the role of cytokines in tumor development from a structural perspective. Atomic details of protein-protein interactions can help in understanding how an upstream signal is transduced; how higher-order oligomerization modes of proteins can influence their function; how mutations, inhibitors or antagonists can change cellular consequences; why the same protein can lead to distinct outcomes, and which alternative parallel pathways can take over. They also help to design drugs/inhibitors against proteins de novo or by mimicking natural antagonists as in the case of interferon-γ. Since the structural database (PDB) is limited, structural pathways are largely built from a series of predicted binary protein-protein interactions. Below, to illustrate how protein-protein interactions can help illuminate roles played by cytokines, we model some cytokine interaction complexes exploiting a powerful algorithm (PRotein Interactions by Structural Matching-PRISM).
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- Emine Guven-Maiorov
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and College of Engineering, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sariyer Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and College of Engineering, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sariyer Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and College of Engineering, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sariyer Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and College of Engineering, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sariyer Istanbul, Turkey.
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- Cancer and Inflammation Program, Leidos Biomedical Research, Inc., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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de Moraes FR, Neshich IAP, Mazoni I, Yano IH, Pereira JGC, Salim JA, Jardine JG, Neshich G. Improving predictions of protein-protein interfaces by combining amino acid-specific classifiers based on structural and physicochemical descriptors with their weighted neighbor averages. PLoS One 2014; 9:e87107. [PMID: 24489849 PMCID: PMC3904977 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/16/2012] [Accepted: 12/22/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions are involved in nearly all regulatory processes in the cell and are considered one of the most important issues in molecular biology and pharmaceutical sciences but are still not fully understood. Structural and computational biology contributed greatly to the elucidation of the mechanism of protein interactions. In this paper, we present a collection of the physicochemical and structural characteristics that distinguish interface-forming residues (IFR) from free surface residues (FSR). We formulated a linear discriminative analysis (LDA) classifier to assess whether chosen descriptors from the BlueStar STING database (http://www.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/SMS/) are suitable for such a task. Receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis indicates that the particular physicochemical and structural descriptors used for building the linear classifier perform much better than a random classifier and in fact, successfully outperform some of the previously published procedures, whose performance indicators were recently compared by other research groups. The results presented here show that the selected set of descriptors can be utilized to predict IFRs, even when homologue proteins are missing (particularly important for orphan proteins where no homologue is available for comparative analysis/indication) or, when certain conformational changes accompany interface formation. The development of amino acid type specific classifiers is shown to increase IFR classification performance. Also, we found that the addition of an amino acid conservation attribute did not improve the classification prediction. This result indicates that the increase in predictive power associated with amino acid conservation is exhausted by adequate use of an extensive list of independent physicochemical and structural parameters that, by themselves, fully describe the nano-environment at protein-protein interfaces. The IFR classifier developed in this study is now integrated into the BlueStar STING suite of programs. Consequently, the prediction of protein-protein interfaces for all proteins available in the PDB is possible through STING_interfaces module, accessible at the following website: (http://www.cbi.cnptia.embrapa.br/SMS/predictions/index.html).
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- Fábio R. de Moraes
- Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Biology Institute, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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- Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA), National Center for Agricultural Informatics, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil
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Minhas FUAA, Geiss BJ, Ben-Hur A. PAIRpred: partner-specific prediction of interacting residues from sequence and structure. Proteins 2013; 82:1142-55. [PMID: 24243399 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24479] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2013] [Revised: 11/04/2013] [Accepted: 11/09/2013] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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We present a novel partner-specific protein-protein interaction site prediction method called PAIRpred. Unlike most existing machine learning binding site prediction methods, PAIRpred uses information from both proteins in a protein complex to predict pairs of interacting residues from the two proteins. PAIRpred captures sequence and structure information about residue pairs through pairwise kernels that are used for training a support vector machine classifier. As a result, PAIRpred presents a more detailed model of protein binding, and offers state of the art accuracy in predicting binding sites at the protein level as well as inter-protein residue contacts at the complex level. We demonstrate PAIRpred's performance on Docking Benchmark 4.0 and recent CAPRI targets. We present a detailed performance analysis outlining the contribution of different sequence and structure features, together with a comparison to a variety of existing interface prediction techniques. We have also studied the impact of binding-associated conformational change on prediction accuracy and found PAIRpred to be more robust to such structural changes than existing schemes. As an illustration of the potential applications of PAIRpred, we provide a case study in which PAIRpred is used to analyze the nature and specificity of the interface in the interaction of human ISG15 protein with NS1 protein from influenza A virus. Python code for PAIRpred is available at http://combi.cs.colostate.edu/supplements/pairpred/.
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Moreira GMSG, Conceição FR, McBride AJA, Pinto LDS. Structure predictions of two Bauhinia variegata lectins reveal patterns of C-terminal properties in single chain legume lectins. PLoS One 2013; 8:e81338. [PMID: 24260572 PMCID: PMC3834338 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081338] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2013] [Accepted: 10/15/2013] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Bauhinia variegata lectins (BVL-I and BVL-II) are single chain lectins isolated from the plant Bauhinia variegata. Single chain lectins undergo post-translational processing on its N-terminal and C-terminal regions, which determines their physiological targeting, carbohydrate binding activity and pattern of quaternary association. These two lectins are isoforms, BVL-I being highly glycosylated, and thus far, it has not been possible to determine their structures. The present study used prediction and validation algorithms to elucidate the likely structures of BVL-I and -II. The program Bhageerath-H was chosen from among three different structure prediction programs due to its better overall reliability. In order to predict the C-terminal region cleavage sites, other lectins known to have this modification were analysed and three rules were created: (1) the first amino acid of the excised peptide is small or hydrophobic; (2) the cleavage occurs after an acid, polar, or hydrophobic residue, but not after a basic one; and (3) the cleavage spot is located 5-8 residues after a conserved Leu amino acid. These rules predicted that BVL-I and -II would have fifteen C-terminal residues cleaved, and this was confirmed experimentally by Edman degradation sequencing of BVL-I. Furthermore, the C-terminal analyses predicted that only BVL-II underwent α-helical folding in this region, similar to that seen in SBA and DBL. Conversely, BVL-I and -II contained four conserved regions of a GS-I association, providing evidence of a previously undescribed X4+unusual oligomerisation between the truncated BVL-I and the intact BVL-II. This is the first report on the structural analysis of lectins from Bauhinia spp. and therefore is important for the characterisation C-terminal cleavage and patterns of quaternary association of single chain lectins.
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- Gustavo M. S. G. Moreira
- Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico, Núcleo de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico, Núcleo de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico, Núcleo de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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- Centro de Desenvolvimento Tecnológico, Núcleo de Biotecnologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
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Fornili A, Pandini A, Lu HC, Fraternali F. Specialized Dynamical Properties of Promiscuous Residues Revealed by Simulated Conformational Ensembles. J Chem Theory Comput 2013; 9:5127-5147. [PMID: 24250278 PMCID: PMC3827836 DOI: 10.1021/ct400486p] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/09/2013] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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ability to interact with different partners is one of the most
important features in proteins. Proteins that bind a large number
of partners (hubs) have been often associated with intrinsic disorder.
However, many examples exist of hubs with an ordered structure, and
evidence of a general mechanism promoting promiscuity in ordered proteins
is still elusive. An intriguing hypothesis is that promiscuous binding
sites have specific dynamical properties, distinct from the rest of
the interface and pre-existing in the protein isolated state. Here,
we present the first comprehensive study of the intrinsic dynamics
of promiscuous residues in a large protein data set. Different computational
methods, from coarse-grained elastic models to geometry-based sampling
methods and to full-atom Molecular Dynamics simulations, were used
to generate conformational ensembles for the isolated proteins. The
flexibility and dynamic correlations of interface residues with a
different degree of binding promiscuity were calculated and compared
considering side chain and backbone motions, the latter both on a
local and on a global scale. The study revealed that (a) promiscuous
residues tend to be more flexible than nonpromiscuous ones, (b) this
additional flexibility has a higher degree of organization, and (c)
evolutionary conservation and binding promiscuity have opposite effects
on intrinsic dynamics. Findings on simulated ensembles were also validated
on ensembles of experimental structures extracted from the Protein
Data Bank (PDB). Additionally, the low occurrence of single nucleotide
polymorphisms observed for promiscuous residues indicated a tendency
to preserve binding diversity at these positions. A case study on
two ubiquitin-like proteins exemplifies how binding promiscuity in
evolutionary related proteins can be modulated by the fine-tuning
of the interface dynamics. The interplay between promiscuity and flexibility
highlighted here can inspire new directions in protein–protein
interaction prediction and design methods.
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- Arianna Fornili
- Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics, King's College London , New Hunt's House, London SE1 1UL, United Kingdom
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Shoemaker B, Wuchty S, Panchenko AR. Computational large-scale mapping of protein-protein interactions using structural complexes. CURRENT PROTOCOLS IN PROTEIN SCIENCE 2013; 73:3.9.1-3.9.9. [PMID: 24510594 PMCID: PMC3920302 DOI: 10.1002/0471140864.ps0309s73] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/30/2022]
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Although the identification of protein interactions by high-throughput methods progresses at a fast pace, "interactome" datasets still suffer from high rates of false positives and low coverage. To map the interactome of any organism, this unit presents a computational framework to predict protein-protein or gene-gene interactions utilizing experimentally determined evidence of structural complexes, atomic details of binding interfaces and evolutionary conservation.
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- Benjamin Shoemaker
- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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- National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland
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Vreven T, Hwang H, Pierce BG, Weng Z. Evaluating template-based and template-free protein-protein complex structure prediction. Brief Bioinform 2013; 15:169-76. [PMID: 23818491 DOI: 10.1093/bib/bbt047] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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We compared the performance of template-free (docking) and template-based methods for the prediction of protein-protein complex structures. We found similar performance for a template-based method based on threading (COTH) and another template-based method based on structural alignment (PRISM). The template-based methods showed similar performance to a docking method (ZDOCK) when the latter was allowed one prediction for each complex, but when the same number of predictions was allowed for each method, the docking approach outperformed template-based approaches. We identified strengths and weaknesses in each method. Template-based approaches were better able to handle complexes that involved conformational changes upon binding. Furthermore, the threading-based and docking methods were better than the structural-alignment-based method for enzyme-inhibitor complex prediction. Finally, we show that the near-native (correct) predictions were generally not shared by the various approaches, suggesting that integrating their results could be the superior strategy.
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- Thom Vreven
- Program in Bioinformatics and Integrative Biology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, ASC-5th floor room 1069, 368 Plantation St., Worcester, MA 01605, USA.
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Guven Maiorov E, Keskin O, Gursoy A, Nussinov R. The structural network of inflammation and cancer: merits and challenges. Semin Cancer Biol 2013; 23:243-51. [PMID: 23712403 DOI: 10.1016/j.semcancer.2013.05.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/06/2013] [Accepted: 05/16/2013] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Inflammation, the first line of defense against pathogens can contribute to all phases of tumorigenesis, including tumor initiation, promotion and metastasis. Within this framework, the Toll-like receptor (TLR) pathway plays a central role in inflammation and cancer. Although extremely useful, the classical representation of this, and other pathways in the cellular network in terms of nodes (proteins) and edges (interactions) is incomplete. Structural pathways can help complete missing parts of such diagrams: they demonstrate in detail how signals coming from different upstream pathways merge and propagate downstream, how parallel pathways compensate each other in drug resistant mutants, how multi-subunit signaling complexes form and in particular why they are needed and how they work, how allosteric events can control these proteins and their pathways, and intricate details of feedback loops and how kick in. They can also explain the mechanisms of some oncogenic SNP mutations. Constructing structural pathways is a challenging task. Here, our goal is to provide an overview of inflammation and cancer from the structural standpoint, focusing on the TLR pathway. We use the powerful PRISM (PRotein Interactions by Structural Matching) tool to reveal important structural information of interactions in and within key orchestrators of the TLR pathway, such as MyD88.
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- Emine Guven Maiorov
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, College of Engineering, Koc University, Rumelifeneri Yolu, Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey.
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A computational framework for boosting confidence in high-throughput protein-protein interaction datasets. Genome Biol 2012; 13:R76. [PMID: 22937800 PMCID: PMC4053744 DOI: 10.1186/gb-2012-13-8-r76] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/03/2012] [Accepted: 08/31/2012] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Improving the quality and coverage of the protein interactome is of tantamount importance for biomedical research, particularly given the various sources of uncertainty in high-throughput techniques. We introduce a structure-based framework, Coev2Net, for computing a single confidence score that addresses both false-positive and false-negative rates. Coev2Net is easily applied to thousands of binary protein interactions and has superior predictive performance over existing methods. We experimentally validate selected high-confidence predictions in the human MAPK network and show that predicted interfaces are enriched for cancer -related or damaging SNPs. Coev2Net can be downloaded at http://struct2net.csail.mit.edu.
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Chen CT, Peng HP, Jian JW, Tsai KC, Chang JY, Yang EW, Chen JB, Ho SY, Hsu WL, Yang AS. Protein-protein interaction site predictions with three-dimensional probability distributions of interacting atoms on protein surfaces. PLoS One 2012; 7:e37706. [PMID: 22701576 PMCID: PMC3368894 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0037706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2011] [Accepted: 04/23/2012] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Protein-protein interactions are key to many biological processes. Computational methodologies devised to predict protein-protein interaction (PPI) sites on protein surfaces are important tools in providing insights into the biological functions of proteins and in developing therapeutics targeting the protein-protein interaction sites. One of the general features of PPI sites is that the core regions from the two interacting protein surfaces are complementary to each other, similar to the interior of proteins in packing density and in the physicochemical nature of the amino acid composition. In this work, we simulated the physicochemical complementarities by constructing three-dimensional probability density maps of non-covalent interacting atoms on the protein surfaces. The interacting probabilities were derived from the interior of known structures. Machine learning algorithms were applied to learn the characteristic patterns of the probability density maps specific to the PPI sites. The trained predictors for PPI sites were cross-validated with the training cases (consisting of 432 proteins) and were tested on an independent dataset (consisting of 142 proteins). The residue-based Matthews correlation coefficient for the independent test set was 0.423; the accuracy, precision, sensitivity, specificity were 0.753, 0.519, 0.677, and 0.779 respectively. The benchmark results indicate that the optimized machine learning models are among the best predictors in identifying PPI sites on protein surfaces. In particular, the PPI site prediction accuracy increases with increasing size of the PPI site and with increasing hydrophobicity in amino acid composition of the PPI interface; the core interface regions are more likely to be recognized with high prediction confidence. The results indicate that the physicochemical complementarity patterns on protein surfaces are important determinants in PPIs, and a substantial portion of the PPI sites can be predicted correctly with the physicochemical complementarity features based on the non-covalent interaction data derived from protein interiors.
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- Ching-Tai Chen
- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
- Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Biomedical Informatics, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan
- Bioinformatics Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- Department of Computer Science, National Tsing-Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Bioinformatics and Systems Biology, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan
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- Institute of Information Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- * E-mail: (AY); (WH)
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- Genomics Research Center, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
- * E-mail: (AY); (WH)
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Rawat N, Biswas P. Hydrophobic moments, shape, and packing in disordered proteins. J Phys Chem B 2012; 116:6326-35. [PMID: 22582807 DOI: 10.1021/jp3016529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Disordered proteins play a significant role in many biological processes and provide an attractive target for biophysical studies under physiological conditions. Disordered proteins may be classified as (a) proteins with overall well-defined secondary structures, interspersed with regions of missing residues, or (b) natively unstructured proteins which lack definite secondary structure. The spatial profile of second order hydrophobic moment for disordered proteins depicts the distribution of hydrophobic residues from the interior to the surface of the protein and indicates the lack of a well-formed hydrophobic core unlike that of the globular proteins. This trend is independent of the size or position of the disordered region in the sequence. The hydrophobicity profile of the ordered regions of the disordered proteins differ considerably from that of globular proteins implying the role of disordered parts and the significance of hydrophobic interactions in the folding of proteins. The shape asymmetry of the two classes of disordered proteins is determined by calculating the asphercity and shape parameters, derived from the cartesian components of radius of gyration tensor. Disordered proteins of group a are more spherical as compared to the natively unstructured proteins (group b), which are more prolate. Both groups of proteins exhibit similar types of side-chain backbone contacts, as that of the globular proteins. While disordered proteins contains few hydrophobic residues natively unstructured proteins are characterized by a residues of low mean hydrophobicity and high mean net charge.
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- Nidhi Rawat
- Department of Chemistry, University of Delhi, Delhi-110007, India
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Taboureau O, Baell JB, Fernández-Recio J, Villoutreix BO. Established and emerging trends in computational drug discovery in the structural genomics era. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2012; 19:29-41. [PMID: 22284352 DOI: 10.1016/j.chembiol.2011.12.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2011] [Revised: 12/05/2011] [Accepted: 12/08/2011] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Bioinformatics and chemoinformatics approaches contribute to hit discovery, hit-to-lead optimization, safety profiling, and target identification and enhance our overall understanding of the health and disease states. A vast repertoire of computational methods has been reported and increasingly combined in order to address more and more challenging targets or complex molecular mechanisms in the context of large-scale integration of structure and bioactivity data produced by private and public drug research. This review explores some key computational methods directly linked to drug discovery and chemical biology with a special emphasis on compound collection preparation, virtual screening, protein docking, and systems pharmacology. A list of generally freely available software packages and online resources is provided, and examples of successful applications are briefly commented upon.
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- Olivier Taboureau
- Center for Biological Sequences Analysis, Department of Systems Biology, Technical University of Denmark, 2800 Kongens Lyngby, Denmark
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Kuzu G, Keskin O, Gursoy A, Nussinov R. Constructing structural networks of signaling pathways on the proteome scale. Curr Opin Struct Biol 2012; 22:367-77. [PMID: 22575757 DOI: 10.1016/j.sbi.2012.04.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 57] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/16/2011] [Revised: 03/20/2012] [Accepted: 04/18/2012] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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Proteins function through their interactions, and the availability of protein interaction networks could help in understanding cellular processes. However, the known structural data are limited and the classical network node-and-edge representation, where proteins are nodes and interactions are edges, shows only which proteins interact; not how they interact. Structural networks provide this information. Protein-protein interface structures can also indicate which binding partners can interact simultaneously and which are competitive, and can help forecasting potentially harmful drug side effects. Here, we use a powerful protein-protein interactions prediction tool which is able to carry out accurate predictions on the proteome scale to construct the structural network of the extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK) in the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) signaling pathway. This knowledge-based method, PRISM, is motif-based, and is combined with flexible refinement and energy scoring. PRISM predicts protein interactions based on structural and evolutionary similarity to known protein interfaces.
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- Guray Kuzu
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics and College of Engineering, Koc University Rumelifeneri Yolu, 34450 Sariyer Istanbul, Turkey
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Tuncbag N, Keskin O, Nussinov R, Gursoy A. Fast and accurate modeling of protein-protein interactions by combining template-interface-based docking with flexible refinement. Proteins 2012; 80:1239-49. [PMID: 22275112 PMCID: PMC7448677 DOI: 10.1002/prot.24022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/24/2011] [Revised: 11/29/2011] [Accepted: 12/13/2011] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The similarity between folding and binding led us to posit the concept that the number of protein-protein interface motifs in nature is limited, and interacting protein pairs can use similar interface architectures repeatedly, even if their global folds completely vary. Thus, known protein-protein interface architectures can be used to model the complexes between two target proteins on the proteome scale, even if their global structures differ. This powerful concept is combined with a flexible refinement and global energy assessment tool. The accuracy of the method is highly dependent on the structural diversity of the interface architectures in the template dataset. Here, we validate this knowledge-based combinatorial method on the Docking Benchmark and show that it efficiently finds high-quality models for benchmark complexes and their binding regions even in the absence of template interfaces having sequence similarity to the targets. Compared to "classical" docking, it is computationally faster; as the number of target proteins increases, the difference becomes more dramatic. Further, it is able to distinguish binders from nonbinders. These features allow performing large-scale network modeling. The results on an independent target set (proteins in the p53 molecular interaction map) show that current method can be used to predict whether a given protein pair interacts. Overall, while constrained by the diversity of the template set, this approach efficiently produces high-quality models of protein-protein complexes. We expect that with the growing number of known interface architectures, this type of knowledge-based methods will be increasingly used by the broad proteomics community.
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- Nurcan Tuncbag
- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, College of Engineering, Koc University, 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, College of Engineering, Koc University, 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Basic Science Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, Maryland 21702
- Department of Human Genetics and Molecular Medicine, Sackler Institute of Molecular Medicine, Sackler School of Medicine, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Center for Computational Biology and Bioinformatics, College of Engineering, Koc University, 34450 Sariyer, Istanbul, Turkey
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Pottiez G, Ciborowski P. Elucidating protein inter- and intramolecular interacting domains using chemical cross-linking and matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight/time of flight mass spectrometry. Anal Biochem 2012; 421:712-8. [PMID: 22226790 PMCID: PMC3287059 DOI: 10.1016/j.ab.2011.12.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2011] [Revised: 11/17/2011] [Accepted: 12/05/2011] [Indexed: 01/01/2023]
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Among many methods used to investigate protein/protein interactions, chemical cross-linking combined with mass spectrometry remains a vital experimental approach. Mapping peptides modified by cross-linker provides clues about proteins' interacting domains. One complication is that such modification may result from intra- but not intermolecular interactions. Therefore, for overall data interpretation, a combination of results from various platforms is necessary. It is postulated that the secretory isoform of gelsolin regulates several biological processes through interactions with proteins such as actin, fibronectin, vitamin D-binding protein, and unidentified receptors on the surface of eukaryotes; it also has been shown to self-assemble eventually leading to the formation of homo-multimers. As such, it is an excellent model for this study. We used four cross-linkers with arm length ranging from 7.7 to 21.7Å and MALDI-TOF/TOF mass spectrometry as the analytical platform. Results of this study show that MALDI-based mass spectrometry generates high quality data to show lysine residues modified by cross-linkers and combined with existing data based on crystallography (Protein Data Bank, PDB) can be used to discriminate between inter- and intramolecular linking.
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- Gwënaël Pottiez
- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Neuroscience, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, USA
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Sinha R, Kundrotas PJ, Vakser IA. Protein docking by the interface structure similarity: how much structure is needed? PLoS One 2012; 7:e31349. [PMID: 22348074 PMCID: PMC3278447 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/15/2011] [Accepted: 01/08/2012] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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The increasing availability of co-crystallized protein-protein complexes provides an opportunity to use template-based modeling for protein-protein docking. Structure alignment techniques are useful in detection of remote target-template similarities. The size of the structure involved in the alignment is important for the success in modeling. This paper describes a systematic large-scale study to find the optimal definition/size of the interfaces for the structure alignment-based docking applications. The results showed that structural areas corresponding to the cutoff values <12 Å across the interface inadequately represent structural details of the interfaces. With the increase of the cutoff beyond 12 Å, the success rate for the benchmark set of 99 protein complexes, did not increase significantly for higher accuracy models, and decreased for lower-accuracy models. The 12 Å cutoff was optimal in our interface alignment-based docking, and a likely best choice for the large-scale (e.g., on the scale of the entire genome) applications to protein interaction networks. The results provide guidelines for the docking approaches, including high-throughput applications to modeled structures.
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- Rohita Sinha
- Center for Bioinformatics, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
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- Center for Bioinformatics, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
- * E-mail: (PJK); (IAV)
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- Center for Bioinformatics, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
- Department of Molecular Biosciences, The University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
- * E-mail: (PJK); (IAV)
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Communication is essential. It is vital between cells in multi-cellular organisms, and within cells. A signaling molecule binds to a receptor protein, and initiates a cascade of dynamic events. Signaling is a multistep pathway, which allows signal amplification: if some of the molecules in a pathway transmit the signal to multiple molecules, the result can be a large number of activated molecules across the cell and multiple reactions. That is how a small number of extracellular signaling molecules can produce a major cellular response. The pathway can relay signals from the extracellular space to the nucleus. How do signals travel efficiently over long-distances across the cell? Here we argue that evolution has utilized three properties: a modular functional organization of the cellular network; sequences in some key regions of proteins, such as linkers or loops, which were pre-encoded by evolution to facilitate signaling among domains; and compact interactions between proteins which is achieved via conformational disorder.
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- Ruth Nussinov
- Basic Research Program, SAIC-Frederick, Inc., Center for Cancer Research Nanobiology Program, NCI-Frederick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA.
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Gonçalves-Almeida VM, Pires DEV, de Melo-Minardi RC, da Silveira CH, Meira W, Santoro MM. HydroPaCe: understanding and predicting cross-inhibition in serine proteases through hydrophobic patch centroids. Bioinformatics 2011; 28:342-9. [DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btr680] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Dwane S, Kiely PA. Tools used to study how protein complexes are assembled in signaling cascades. Bioeng Bugs 2011; 2:247-59. [PMID: 22002082 PMCID: PMC3225741 DOI: 10.4161/bbug.2.5.17844] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/06/2011] [Revised: 08/19/2011] [Accepted: 08/24/2011] [Indexed: 01/08/2023] Open
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Most proteins do not function on their own but as part of large signaling complexes that are arranged in every living cell in response to specific environmental cues. Proteins interact with each other either constitutively or transiently and do so with different affinity. When identifying the role played by a protein inside a cell, it is essential to define its particular cohort of binding partners so that the researcher can predict what signaling pathways the protein is engaged in. Once identified and confirmed, the information might allow the interaction to be manipulated by pharmacological inhibitors to help fight disease. In this review, we discuss protein-protein interactions and how they are essential to propagate signals in signaling pathways. We examine some of the high-throughput screening methods and focus on the methods used to confirm specific protein-protein interactions including; affinity tagging, co-immunoprecipitation, peptide array technology and fluorescence microscopy.
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- Susan Dwane
- Department of Life Sciences, and Materials and Surface Science Institute, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
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