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Sirugue L, Langenfeld F, Lagarde N, Montes M. PLO3S: Protein LOcal Surficial Similarity Screening. Comput Struct Biotechnol J 2024; 26:1-10. [PMID: 38189058 PMCID: PMC10770625 DOI: 10.1016/j.csbj.2023.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/14/2022] [Revised: 12/01/2023] [Accepted: 12/03/2023] [Indexed: 01/09/2024] Open
Abstract
The study of protein molecular surfaces enables to better understand and predict protein interactions. Different methods have been developed in computer vision to compare surfaces that can be applied to protein molecular surfaces. The present work proposes a method using the Wave Kernel Signature: Protein LOcal Surficial Similarity Screening (PLO3S). The descriptor of the PLO3S method is a local surface shape descriptor projected on a unit sphere mapped onto a 2D plane and called Surface Wave Interpolated Maps (SWIM). PLO3S allows to rapidly compare protein surface shapes through local comparisons to filter large protein surfaces datasets in protein structures virtual screening protocols.
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- Léa Sirugue
- Laboratoire GBCM, EA7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, 2, rue Conté, Paris, 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, 2, rue Conté, Paris, 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, 2, rue Conté, Paris, 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, 2, rue Conté, Paris, 75003, France
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Biswas G, Mukherjee D, Basu S. Combining Complementarity and Binding Energetics in the Assessment of Protein Interactions: EnCPdock-A Practical Manual. J Comput Biol 2024; 31:769-781. [PMID: 38885081 DOI: 10.1089/cmb.2024.0554] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/20/2024] Open
Abstract
The combined effect of shape and electrostatic complementarities (Sc, EC) at the interface of the interacting protein partners (PPI) serves as the physical basis for such associations and is a strong determinant of their binding energetics. EnCPdock (https://www.scinetmol.in/EnCPdock/) presents a comprehensive web platform for the direct conjoint comparative analyses of complementarity and binding energetics in PPIs. It elegantly interlinks the dual nature of local (Sc) and nonlocal complementarity (EC) in PPIs using the complementarity plot. It further derives an AI-based ΔGbinding with a prediction accuracy comparable to the state of the art. This book chapter presents a practical manual to conceptualize and implement EnCPdock with its various features and functionalities, collectively having the potential to serve as a valuable protein engineering tool in the design of novel protein interfaces.
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- Gargi Biswas
- Department of Chemical and Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Microbiology, Asutosh College, University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India
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Ellsworth SA, Rautsaw RM, Ward MJ, Holding ML, Rokyta DR. Selection Across the Three-Dimensional Structure of Venom Proteins from North American Scolopendromorph Centipedes. J Mol Evol 2024:10.1007/s00239-024-10191-y. [PMID: 39026042 DOI: 10.1007/s00239-024-10191-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2024] [Accepted: 07/09/2024] [Indexed: 07/20/2024]
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Gene duplication followed by nucleotide differentiation is one of the simplest mechanisms to develop new functions for genes. However, the evolutionary processes underlying the divergence of multigene families remain controversial. We used multigene families found within the diversity of toxic proteins in centipede venom to test two hypotheses related to venom evolution: the two-speed mode of venom evolution and the rapid accumulation of variation in exposed residues (RAVER) model. The two-speed mode of venom evolution proposes that different types of selection impact ancient and younger venomous lineages with negative selection being the predominant form in ancient lineages and positive selection being the dominant form in younger lineages. The RAVER hypothesis proposes that, instead of different types of selection acting on different ages of venomous lineages, the different types of selection will selectively contribute to amino acid variation based on whether the residue is exposed to the solvent where it can potentially interact directly with toxin targets. This hypothesis parallels the longstanding understanding of protein evolution that suggests that residues found within the structural or active regions of the protein will be under negative or purifying selection, and residues that do not form part of these areas will be more prone to positive selection. To test these two hypotheses, we compared the venom of 26 centipedes from the order Scolopendromorpha from six currently recognized species from across North America using both transcriptomics and proteomics. We first estimated their phylogenetic relationships and uncovered paraphyly among the genus Scolopendra and evidence for cryptic diversity among currently recognized species. Using our phylogeny, we then characterized the diverse venom components from across the identified clades using a combination of transcriptomics and proteomics. We conducted selection-based analyses in the context of predicted three-dimensional properties of the venom proteins and found support for both hypotheses. Consistent with the two-speed hypothesis, we found a prevalence of negative selection across all proteins. Consistent with the RAVER hypothesis, we found evidence of positive selection on solvent-exposed residues, with structural and less-exposed residues showing stronger signal for negative selection. Through the use of phylogenetics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and selection-based analyses, we were able to describe the evolution of venom from an ancient venomous lineage and support principles of protein evolution that directly relate to multigene family evolution.
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- Schyler A Ellsworth
- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
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- Department of Integrative Biology, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 33620, USA
- School of Biological Sciences, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, 99164, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA
- Life Sciences Institute, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
- Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA
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- Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, USA.
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Ahn SY, Obermeyer AC. Selectivity of Complex Coacervation in Multi-Protein Mixtures. BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2024:2024.04.02.587643. [PMID: 38617366 PMCID: PMC11014547 DOI: 10.1101/2024.04.02.587643] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 04/16/2024]
Abstract
Liquid-liquid phase separation of biomolecules is increasingly recognized as relevant to various cellular functions, and complex coacervation of biomacromolecules, particularly proteins, is emerging as a key mechanism for this phenomenon. Complex coacervation is also being explored as a potential protein purification method due to its potential scalability, aqueous operation, and ability to produce a highly concentrated product. However, to date most studies of complex coacervation have evaluated the phase behavior of a binary mixture of two oppositely charged macromolecules. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of the phase behavior of complex biological mixtures has yet to be established. To address this, a panel of engineered proteins was designed to allow for quantitative analysis of the complex coacervation of individual proteins within a multi-component mixture. The behavior of individual proteins was evaluated using a defined mixture of proteins that mimics the charge profile of the E. coli proteome. To allow for direct quantification of proteins in each phase, spectrally separated fluorescent proteins were used to construct the protein mixture. From this quantitative analysis, we observed that the coacervation behavior of individual proteins in the mixture was consistent with each other, which was distinctive from the behavior when each protein was evaluated in a single-protein system. Subtle differences in biophysical properties between the proteins became noticeable in the mixture, which allowed us to elucidate parameters for protein complex coacervation. With this understanding, we successfully designed methods to enrich a range of proteins of interest from a mixture of proteins.
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- So Yeon Ahn
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Columbia University, New York, NY
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Manalastas-Cantos K, Adoni KR, Pfeifer M, Märtens B, Grünewald K, Thalassinos K, Topf M. Modeling Flexible Protein Structure With AlphaFold2 and Crosslinking Mass Spectrometry. Mol Cell Proteomics 2024; 23:100724. [PMID: 38266916 PMCID: PMC10884514 DOI: 10.1016/j.mcpro.2024.100724] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/13/2023] [Revised: 12/23/2023] [Accepted: 12/27/2023] [Indexed: 01/26/2024] Open
Abstract
We propose a pipeline that combines AlphaFold2 (AF2) and crosslinking mass spectrometry (XL-MS) to model the structure of proteins with multiple conformations. The pipeline consists of two main steps: ensemble generation using AF2 and conformer selection using XL-MS data. For conformer selection, we developed two scores-the monolink probability score (MP) and the crosslink probability score (XLP)-both of which are based on residue depth from the protein surface. We benchmarked MP and XLP on a large dataset of decoy protein structures and showed that our scores outperform previously developed scores. We then tested our methodology on three proteins having an open and closed conformation in the Protein Data Bank: Complement component 3 (C3), luciferase, and glutamine-binding periplasmic protein, first generating ensembles using AF2, which were then screened for the open and closed conformations using experimental XL-MS data. In five out of six cases, the most accurate model within the AF2 ensembles-or a conformation within 1 Å of this model-was identified using crosslinks, as assessed through the XLP score. In the remaining case, only the monolinks (assessed through the MP score) successfully identified the open conformation of glutamine-binding periplasmic protein, and these results were further improved by including the "occupancy" of the monolinks. This serves as a compelling proof-of-concept for the effectiveness of monolinks. In contrast, the AF2 assessment score was only able to identify the most accurate conformation in two out of six cases. Our results highlight the complementarity of AF2 with experimental methods like XL-MS, with the MP and XLP scores providing reliable metrics to assess the quality of the predicted models. The MP and XLP scoring functions mentioned above are available at https://gitlab.com/topf-lab/xlms-tools.
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- Karen Manalastas-Cantos
- Center for Data and Computing in Natural Sciences, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Department of Integrative Virology, Leibniz-Institut für Virologie (LIV), Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, UK; Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Integrative Virology, Leibniz-Institut für Virologie (LIV), Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Hamburg, Germany; Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Integrative Virology, Leibniz-Institut für Virologie (LIV), Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Hamburg, Germany; Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany
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- Department of Integrative Virology, Leibniz-Institut für Virologie (LIV), Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Hamburg, Germany; Department of Chemistry, Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
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- Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Division of Biosciences, University College London, London, UK; Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, United Kingdom
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- Department of Integrative Virology, Leibniz-Institut für Virologie (LIV), Centre for Structural Systems Biology (CSSB), Hamburg, Germany; Universitätsklinikum Hamburg Eppendorf (UKE), Hamburg, Germany.
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Tworek P, Rakowski K, Szota M, Lekka M, Jachimska B. Changes in Secondary Structure and Properties of Bovine Serum Albumin as a Result of Interactions with Gold Surface. Chemphyschem 2024; 25:e202300505. [PMID: 38009440 DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202300505] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2023] [Revised: 11/17/2023] [Accepted: 11/19/2023] [Indexed: 11/28/2023]
Abstract
Proteins can alter their shape when interacting with a surface. This study explores how bovine serum albumin (BSA) modifies structurally when it adheres to a gold surface, depending on the protein concentration and pH. We verified that the gold surface induces significant structural modifications to the BSA molecule using circular dichroism, infrared spectroscopy, and atomic force microscopy. Specifically, adsorbed molecules displayed increased levels of disordered structures and β-turns, with fewer α-helices than the native structure. MP-SPR spectroscopy demonstrated that the protein molecules preferred a planar orientation during adsorption. Molecular dynamics simulations revealed that the interaction between cysteines exposed to the outside of the molecule and the gold surface was vital, especially at pH=3.5. The macroscopic properties of the protein film observed by AFM and contact angles confirm the flexible nature of the protein itself. Notably, structural transformation is joined with the degree of hydration of protein layers.
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- Paulina Tworek
- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Krakow, Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Krakow, Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Biophysical Microstructures, Henryk Niewodniczanski Institute of Nuclear Physics, Polish Academy of Sciences, 31-342, Krakow, Poland
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- Jerzy Haber Institute of Catalysis and Surface Chemistry Polish Academy of Sciences, Niezapominajek 8, 30-239, Krakow, Poland
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Banach M. Structural Outlier Detection and Zernike-Canterakis Moments for Molecular Surface Meshes-Fast Implementation in Python. Molecules 2023; 29:52. [PMID: 38202635 PMCID: PMC10779519 DOI: 10.3390/molecules29010052] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/23/2023] [Revised: 12/06/2023] [Accepted: 12/12/2023] [Indexed: 01/12/2024] Open
Abstract
Object retrieval systems measure the degree of similarity of the shape of 3D models. They search for the elements of the 3D model databases that resemble the query model. In structural bioinformatics, the query model is a protein tertiary/quaternary structure and the objective is to find similarly shaped molecules in the Protein Data Bank. With the ever-growing size of the PDB, a direct atomic coordinate comparison with all its members is impractical. To overcome this problem, the shape of the molecules can be encoded by fixed-length feature vectors. The distance of a protein to the entire PDB can be measured in this low-dimensional domain in linear time. The state-of-the-art approaches utilize Zernike-Canterakis moments for the shape encoding and supply the retrieval process with geometric data of the input structures. The BioZernike descriptors are a standard utility of the PDB since 2020. However, when trying to calculate the ZC moments locally, the issue of the deficiency of libraries readily available for use in custom programs (i.e., without relying on external binaries) is encountered, in particular programs written in Python. Here, a fast and well-documented Python implementation of the Pozo-Koehl algorithm is presented. In contrast to the more popular algorithm by Novotni and Klein, which is based on the voxelized volume, the PK algorithm produces ZC moments directly from the triangular surface meshes of 3D models. In particular, it can accept the molecular surfaces of proteins as its input. In the presented PK-Zernike library, owing to Numba's just-in-time compilation, a mesh with 50,000 facets is processed by a single thread in a second at the moment order 20. Since this is the first time the PK algorithm is used in structural bioinformatics, it is employed in a novel, simple, but efficient protein structure retrieval pipeline. The elimination of the outlying chain fragments via a fast PCA-based subroutine improves the discrimination ability, allowing for this pipeline to achieve an 0.961 area under the ROC curve in the BioZernike validation suite (0.997 for the assemblies). The correlation between the results of the proposed approach and of the 3D Surfer program attains values up to 0.99.
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- Mateusz Banach
- Department of Bioinformatics and Telemedicine, Faculty of Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College, Medyczna 7, 30-688 Kraków, Poland
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Wu Y, Wei H, Zhu Q, Luo R. Grid-Robust Efficient Neural Interface Model for Universal Molecule Surface Construction from Point Clouds. J Phys Chem Lett 2023; 14:9034-9041. [PMID: 37782231 PMCID: PMC10577766 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c02176] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/03/2023] [Accepted: 09/26/2023] [Indexed: 10/03/2023]
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Molecular surfaces play a pivotal role in elucidating the properties and functions of biological complexes. While various surfaces have been proposed for specific scenarios, their widespread adoption faces challenges due to limited efficiency stemming from hand-crafted modeling designs. In this work, we proposed a general framework that incorporates both the point cloud concept and neural networks. The use of matrix multiplication in this framework enables efficient implementation across diverse platforms and libraries. We applied this framework to develop the GENIUSES (Grid-robust Efficient Neural Interface for Universal Solvent-Excluded Surface) model for constructing SES. GENIUSES demonstrates high accuracy and efficiency across data sets with varying conformations and complexities. Compared to the classical implementation of SES in the AMBER software package, our framework achieved a 26-fold speedup while retaining ∼95% accuracy when ported to the GPU platform using CUDA. Greater speedups can be obtained in large-scale systems. Importantly, our model exhibits robustness against variations in the grid spacing. We have integrated this infrastructure into AMBER to enhance accessibility for research in drug screening and related fields, where efficiency is of paramount importance.
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- Yongxian Wu
- Departments
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
Materials Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Department
of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University
of California, San Diego, California 92093, United States
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- Departments
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
Materials Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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- Departments
of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Molecular Biology and Biochemistry,
Materials Science and Engineering, and Biomedical Engineering, University of California, Irvine, California 92697, United States
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Hoffstedt M, Stein MO, Baumann K, Wätzig H. Experimentally Observed Conformational Changes in Antibodies Due to Binding and Paratope-epitope Asymmetries. J Pharm Sci 2023; 112:2404-2411. [PMID: 37295605 DOI: 10.1016/j.xphs.2023.06.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/25/2023] [Revised: 06/02/2023] [Accepted: 06/02/2023] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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Understanding binding related changes in antibody conformations is important for epitope prediction and antibody refinement. The increase of available data in the PDB allowed a more detailed investigation of the conformational landscape for free and bound antibodies. A dataset containing a total of 835 unique PDB entries of antibodies that were crystallized in complex with their antigen and in a free state was constructed. It was examined for binding related conformation changes. We present further evidence supporting the theory of a pre-existing-equilibrium in experimental data. Multiple sequence alignments did not show binding induced tendencies in the solvent accessibility of residues in any specific position. Evaluating the changes in solvent accessibility per residue revealed a certain binding induced increase for several amino acids. Antibody-antigen interaction statistics were established and quantify a significant directional asymmetry between many interacting antibody and antigen residue pairs, especially a richness in tyrosine in the antibody epitope compared to its paratope. This asymmetry could potentially facilitate an increase in the success rate of computationally guided antibody refinement.
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- Marc Hoffstedt
- Institute of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Deutschland
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- Institute of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Deutschland
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- Institute of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Deutschland
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- Institute of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, TU Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Deutschland
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Biswas G, Mukherjee D, Dutta N, Ghosh P, Basu S. EnCPdock: a web-interface for direct conjoint comparative analyses of complementarity and binding energetics in inter-protein associations. J Mol Model 2023; 29:239. [PMID: 37423912 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-023-05626-0] [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: 03/23/2023] [Accepted: 06/20/2023] [Indexed: 07/11/2023]
Abstract
CONTEXT Protein-protein interaction (PPI) is a key component linked to virtually all cellular processes. Be it an enzyme catalysis ('classic type functions' of proteins) or a signal transduction ('non-classic'), proteins generally function involving stable or quasi-stable multi-protein associations. The physical basis for such associations is inherent in the combined effect of shape and electrostatic complementarities (Sc, EC) of the interacting protein partners at their interface, which provides indirect probabilistic estimates of the stability and affinity of the interaction. While Sc is a necessary criterion for inter-protein associations, EC can be favorable as well as disfavored (e.g., in transient interactions). Estimating equilibrium thermodynamic parameters (∆Gbinding, Kd) by experimental means is costly and time consuming, thereby opening windows for computational structural interventions. Attempts to empirically probe ∆Gbinding from coarse-grain structural descriptors (primarily, surface area based terms) have lately been overtaken by physics-based, knowledge-based and their hybrid approaches (MM/PBSA, FoldX, etc.) that directly compute ∆Gbinding without involving intermediate structural descriptors. METHODS Here, we present EnCPdock ( https://www.scinetmol.in/EnCPdock/ ), a user-friendly web-interface for the direct conjoint comparative analyses of complementarity and binding energetics in proteins. EnCPdock returns an AI-predicted ∆Gbinding computed by combining complementarity (Sc, EC) and other high-level structural descriptors (input feature vectors), and renders a prediction accuracy comparable to the state-of-the-art. EnCPdock further locates a PPI complex in terms of its {Sc, EC} values (taken as an ordered pair) in the two-dimensional complementarity plot (CP). In addition, it also generates mobile molecular graphics of the interfacial atomic contact network for further analyses. EnCPdock also furnishes individual feature trends along with the relative probability estimates (Prfmax) of the obtained feature-scores with respect to the events of their highest observed frequencies. Together, these functionalities are of real practical use for structural tinkering and intervention as might be relevant in the design of targeted protein-interfaces. Combining all its features and applications, EnCPdock presents a unique online tool that should be beneficial to structural biologists and researchers across related fraternities.
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- Gargi Biswas
- Department of Chemistry and Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, 7610001, Rehovot, Israel
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- Institute of Molecular Biology gGmbH (IMB), Ackermannweg 4, 55128, Mainz, Germany
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- Dept of Biochemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Science, University College London, London, WC1E 6BT, UK
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- Department of Botany, Narajole Raj College, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, 721211, India
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- Department of Microbiology, Asutosh College (affiliated with University of Calcutta), 92, Shyama Prasad Mukherjee Rd, Bhowanipore, 700026, Kolkata, India.
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Paquet E, Viktor HL, Madi K, Wu J. Deformable Protein Shape Classification Based on Deep Learning, and the Fractional Fokker-Planck and Kähler-Dirac Equations. IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON PATTERN ANALYSIS AND MACHINE INTELLIGENCE 2023; 45:391-407. [PMID: 35085073 DOI: 10.1109/tpami.2022.3146796] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/06/2023]
Abstract
The classification of deformable protein shapes, based solely on their macromolecular surfaces, is a challenging problem in protein-protein interaction prediction and protein design. Shape classification is made difficult by the fact that proteins are dynamic, flexible entities with high geometrical complexity. In this paper, we introduce a novel description for such deformable shapes. This description is based on the bifractional Fokker-Planck and Dirac-Kähler equations. These equations analyse and probe protein shapes in terms of a scalar, vectorial and non-commuting quaternionic field, allowing for a more comprehensive description of the protein shapes. An underlying non-Markovian Lévy random walk establishes geometrical relationships between distant regions while recalling previous analyses. Classification is performed with a multiobjective deep hierarchical pyramidal neural network, thus performing a multilevel analysis of the description. Our approach is applied to the SHREC'19 dataset for deformable protein shapes classification and to the SHREC'16 dataset for deformable partial shapes classification, demonstrating the effectiveness and generality of our approach.
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Bajorath J, Chávez-Hernández AL, Duran-Frigola M, Fernández-de Gortari E, Gasteiger J, López-López E, Maggiora GM, Medina-Franco JL, Méndez-Lucio O, Mestres J, Miranda-Quintana RA, Oprea TI, Plisson F, Prieto-Martínez FD, Rodríguez-Pérez R, Rondón-Villarreal P, Saldívar-Gonzalez FI, Sánchez-Cruz N, Valli M. Chemoinformatics and artificial intelligence colloquium: progress and challenges in developing bioactive compounds. J Cheminform 2022; 14:82. [PMID: 36461094 PMCID: PMC9716667 DOI: 10.1186/s13321-022-00661-0] [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: 08/09/2022] [Accepted: 11/25/2022] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
Abstract
We report the main conclusions of the first Chemoinformatics and Artificial Intelligence Colloquium, Mexico City, June 15-17, 2022. Fifteen lectures were presented during a virtual public event with speakers from industry, academia, and non-for-profit organizations. Twelve hundred and ninety students and academics from more than 60 countries. During the meeting, applications, challenges, and opportunities in drug discovery, de novo drug design, ADME-Tox (absorption, distribution, metabolism, excretion and toxicity) property predictions, organic chemistry, peptides, and antibiotic resistance were discussed. The program along with the recordings of all sessions are freely available at https://www.difacquim.com/english/events/2022-colloquium/ .
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- Jürgen Bajorath
- Department of Life Science Informatics, B-IT, LIMES Program Unit Chemical Biology and Medicinal Chemistry, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Friedrich-Hirzebruch-Allee 5/6, 53113, Bonn, Germany
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- DIFACQUIM Research Group, Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Ersilia Open Source Initiative, Cambridge, UK
- Joint IRB-BSC-CRG Programme in Computational Biology, Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), The Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Nanosafety Laboratory, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory, 4715-330, Braga, Portugal
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- Computer-Chemie-Centrum, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany
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- DIFACQUIM Research Group, Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
- Department of Pharmacology, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV), 07360, Mexico City, Mexico
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- DIFACQUIM Research Group, Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico.
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- Chemotargets SL, Baldiri Reixac 4, Parc Cientific de Barcelona (PCB), 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Research Group on Systems Pharmacology, Research Program on Biomedical Informatics (GRIB), IMIM Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute and University Pompeu Fabra, Parc de Recerca Biomedica (PRBB), 08003, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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- Department of Internal Medicine, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA
- Department of Rheumatology and Inflammation Research, Institute of Medicine, Sahlgrenska Academy at Gothenburg University, 40530, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Protein Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, 2200, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Roivant Discovery Sciences, Inc., 451 D Street, Boston, MA, 02210, USA
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- Department of Biotechnology and Biochemistry, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN), Irapuato Unit, 36824, Irapuato, Gto, Mexico
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- Universidad de Santander, Facultad de Ciencias Médicas y de la Salud, Instituto de Investigación Masira, Calle 70 No. 55-210, 680003, Santander, Bucaramanga, Colombia
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- DIFACQUIM Research Group, Department of Pharmacy, School of Chemistry, National Autonomous University of Mexico, 04510, Mexico City, Mexico
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- Chemotargets SL, Baldiri Reixac 4, Parc Cientific de Barcelona (PCB), 08028, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
- Instituto de Química, Unidad Mérida, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Carretera Mérida-Tetiz Km. 4.5, Yucatán, 97357, Ucú, Mexico
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- Nuclei of Bioassays, Biosynthesis and Ecophysiology of Natural Products (NuBBE), Department of Organic Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, São Paulo State University-UNESP, Araraquara, Brazil
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3β-Corner Stability by Comparative Molecular Dynamics Simulations. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms231911674. [PMID: 36232976 PMCID: PMC9570037 DOI: 10.3390/ijms231911674] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2022] [Revised: 09/26/2022] [Accepted: 09/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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This study explored the mechanisms by which the stability of super-secondary structures of the 3β-corner type autonomously outside the protein globule are maintained in an aqueous environment. A molecular dynamic (MD) study determined the behavioral diversity of a large set of non-homologous 3β-corner structures of various origins. We focused on geometric parameters such as change in gyration radius, solvent-accessible area, major conformer lifetime and torsion angles, and the number of hydrogen bonds. Ultimately, a set of 3β-corners from 330 structures was characterized by a root mean square deviation (RMSD) of less than 5 Å, a change in the gyration radius of no more than 5%, and the preservation of amino acid residues positioned within the allowed regions on the Ramachandran map. The studied structures retained their topologies throughout the MD experiments. Thus, the 3β-corner structure was found to be rather stable per se in a water environment, i.e., without the rest of a protein molecule, and can act as the nucleus or “ready-made” building block in protein folding. The 3β-corner can also be considered as an independent object for study in field of structural biology.
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Chen R, Li X, Yang Y, Song X, Wang C, Qiao D. Prediction of protein-protein interaction sites in intrinsically disordered proteins. Front Mol Biosci 2022; 9:985022. [PMID: 36250006 PMCID: PMC9567019 DOI: 10.3389/fmolb.2022.985022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/03/2022] [Accepted: 07/27/2022] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) participate in many biological processes by interacting with other proteins, including the regulation of transcription, translation, and the cell cycle. With the increasing amount of disorder sequence data available, it is thus crucial to identify the IDP binding sites for functional annotation of these proteins. Over the decades, many computational approaches have been developed to predict protein-protein binding sites of IDP (IDP-PPIS) based on protein sequence information. Moreover, there are new IDP-PPIS predictors developed every year with the rapid development of artificial intelligence. It is thus necessary to provide an up-to-date overview of these methods in this field. In this paper, we collected 30 representative predictors published recently and summarized the databases, features and algorithms. We described the procedure how the features were generated based on public data and used for the prediction of IDP-PPIS, along with the methods to generate the feature representations. All the predictors were divided into three categories: scoring functions, machine learning-based prediction, and consensus approaches. For each category, we described the details of algorithms and their performances. Hopefully, our manuscript will not only provide a full picture of the status quo of IDP binding prediction, but also a guide for selecting different methods. More importantly, it will shed light on the inspirations for future development trends and principles.
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- Ranran Chen
- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- National Institute of Health Data Science of China, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- National Institute of Health Data Science of China, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- National Institute of Health Data Science of China, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- National Institute of Health Data Science of China, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Cheeloo College of Medicine, Shandong University, Jinan, China
- National Institute of Health Data Science of China, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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- Shandong Mental Health Center, Shandong University, Jinan, China
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Rana MM, Nguyen DD. EISA-Score: Element Interactive Surface Area Score for Protein–Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction. J Chem Inf Model 2022; 62:4329-4341. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jcim.2c00697] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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- Md Masud Rana
- Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, United States
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He J, Yang J, McCutcheon JR, Li Y. Molecular insights into the structure-property relationships of 3D printed polyamide reverse-osmosis membrane for desalination. J Memb Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.memsci.2022.120731] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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Protein–Protein Interaction Prediction for Targeted Protein Degradation. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23137033. [PMID: 35806036 PMCID: PMC9266413 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23137033] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/10/2022] [Revised: 06/17/2022] [Accepted: 06/18/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023] Open
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Protein–protein interactions (PPIs) play a fundamental role in various biological functions; thus, detecting PPI sites is essential for understanding diseases and developing new drugs. PPI prediction is of particular relevance for the development of drugs employing targeted protein degradation, as their efficacy relies on the formation of a stable ternary complex involving two proteins. However, experimental methods to detect PPI sites are both costly and time-intensive. In recent years, machine learning-based methods have been developed as screening tools. While they are computationally more efficient than traditional docking methods and thus allow rapid execution, these tools have so far primarily been based on sequence information, and they are therefore limited in their ability to address spatial requirements. In addition, they have to date not been applied to targeted protein degradation. Here, we present a new deep learning architecture based on the concept of graph representation learning that can predict interaction sites and interactions of proteins based on their surface representations. We demonstrate that our model reaches state-of-the-art performance using AUROC scores on the established MaSIF dataset. We furthermore introduce a new dataset with more diverse protein interactions and show that our model generalizes well to this new data. These generalization capabilities allow our model to predict the PPIs relevant for targeted protein degradation, which we show by demonstrating the high accuracy of our model for PPI prediction on the available ternary complex data. Our results suggest that PPI prediction models can be a valuable tool for screening protein pairs while developing new drugs for targeted protein degradation.
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Grassmann G, Miotto M, Di Rienzo L, Gosti G, Ruocco G, Milanetti E. A novel computational strategy for defining the minimal protein molecular surface representation. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0266004. [PMID: 35421111 PMCID: PMC9009619 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0266004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [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: 07/30/2021] [Accepted: 03/12/2022] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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Most proteins perform their biological function by interacting with one or more molecular partners. In this respect, characterizing local features of the molecular surface, that can potentially be involved in the interaction with other molecules, represents a step forward in the investigation of the mechanisms of recognition and binding between molecules. Predictive methods often rely on extensive samplings of molecular patches with the aim to identify hot spots on the surface. In this framework, analysis of large proteins and/or many molecular dynamics frames is often unfeasible due to the high computational cost. Thus, finding optimal ways to reduce the number of points to be sampled maintaining the biological information (including the surface shape) carried by the molecular surface is pivotal. In this perspective, we here present a new theoretical and computational algorithm with the aim of defining a set of molecular surfaces composed of points not uniformly distributed in space, in such a way as to maximize the information of the overall shape of the molecule by minimizing the number of total points. We test our procedure’s ability in recognizing hot-spots by describing the local shape properties of portions of molecular surfaces through a recently developed method based on the formalism of 2D Zernike polynomials. The results of this work show the ability of the proposed algorithm to preserve the key information of the molecular surface using a reduced number of points compared to the complete surface, where all points of the surface are used for the description. In fact, the methodology shows a significant gain of the information stored in the sampling procedure compared to uniform random sampling.
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- Center for Life Nano & Neuroscience, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Life Nano & Neuroscience, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Life Nano & Neuroscience, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Life Nano & Neuroscience, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy
- Department of Physics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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- Center for Life Nano & Neuroscience, Italian Institute of Technology, Rome, Italy
- Department of Physics, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
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Aderinwale T, Bharadwaj V, Christoffer C, Terashi G, Zhang Z, Jahandideh R, Kagaya Y, Kihara D. Real-time structure search and structure classification for AlphaFold protein models. Commun Biol 2022; 5:316. [PMID: 35383281 PMCID: PMC8983703 DOI: 10.1038/s42003-022-03261-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2021] [Accepted: 03/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Last year saw a breakthrough in protein structure prediction, where the AlphaFold2 method showed a substantial improvement in the modeling accuracy. Following the software release of AlphaFold2, predicted structures by AlphaFold2 for proteins in 21 species were made publicly available via the AlphaFold Database. Here, to facilitate structural analysis and application of AlphaFold2 models, we provide the infrastructure, 3D-AF-Surfer, which allows real-time structure-based search for the AlphaFold2 models. In 3D-AF-Surfer, structures are represented with 3D Zernike descriptors (3DZD), which is a rotationally invariant, mathematical representation of 3D shapes. We developed a neural network that takes 3DZDs of proteins as input and retrieves proteins of the same fold more accurately than direct comparison of 3DZDs. Using 3D-AF-Surfer, we report structure classifications of AlphaFold2 models and discuss the correlation between confidence levels of AlphaFold2 models and intrinsic disordered regions.
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- Tunde Aderinwale
- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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Langenfeld F, Aderinwale T, Christoffer C, Shin WH, Terashi G, Wang X, Kihara D, Benhabiles H, Hammoudi K, Cabani A, Windal F, Melkemi M, Otu E, Zwiggelaar R, Hunter D, Liu Y, Sirugue L, Nguyen HNH, Nguyen TDH, Nguyen-Truong VT, Le D, Nguyen HD, Tran MT, Montès M. Surface-based protein domains retrieval methods from a SHREC2021 challenge. J Mol Graph Model 2022; 111:108103. [PMID: 34959149 PMCID: PMC9746607 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmgm.2021.108103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/09/2021] [Revised: 11/29/2021] [Accepted: 12/04/2021] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Proteins are essential to nearly all cellular mechanism and the effectors of the cells activities. As such, they often interact through their surface with other proteins or other cellular ligands such as ions or organic molecules. The evolution generates plenty of different proteins, with unique abilities, but also proteins with related functions hence similar 3D surface properties (shape, physico-chemical properties, …). The protein surfaces are therefore of primary importance for their activity. In the present work, we assess the ability of different methods to detect such similarities based on the geometry of the protein surfaces (described as 3D meshes), using either their shape only, or their shape and the electrostatic potential (a biologically relevant property of proteins surface). Five different groups participated in this contest using the shape-only dataset, and one group extended its pre-existing method to handle the electrostatic potential. Our comparative study reveals both the ability of the methods to detect related proteins and their difficulties to distinguish between highly related proteins. Our study allows also to analyze the putative influence of electrostatic information in addition to the one of protein shapes alone. Finally, the discussion permits to expose the results with respect to ones obtained in the previous contests for the extended method. The source codes of each presented method have been made available online.
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- Florent Langenfeld
- Laboratoire de Génomique, Bio-informatique et Chimie Moléculaire (GBCM), EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts-et-Métiers, HESAM Université, 2, rue Conté, Paris, 75003, France,Corresponding author: (F. Langenfeld)
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Chemical Science Education, Sunchon National University, Suncheon, 57922, Republic of Korea
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- Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Department of Computer Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA,Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Junia, UMR 8520, IEMN - Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59 000, Lille, France
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- Université de Haute-Alsace, Department of Computer Science, IRIMAS, F-68 100, Mulhouse, France,Université de Strasbourg, France
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- Normandie University, UNIROUEN, ESIGELEC, IRSEEM, 76000, Rouen, France
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- Univ. Lille, CNRS, Centrale Lille, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Junia, UMR 8520, IEMN - Institut d’Electronique de Microélectronique et de Nanotechnologie, F-59 000, Lille, France
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- Université de Haute-Alsace, Department of Computer Science, IRIMAS, F-68 100, Mulhouse, France,Université de Strasbourg, France
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- Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FL, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FL, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Aberystwyth University, Aberystwyth, SY23 3FL, UK
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- Department of Computer Science, Edge Hill University, Ormskirk, L39 4QP, UK
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- Laboratoire de Génomique, Bio-informatique et Chimie Moléculaire (GBCM), EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts-et-Métiers, HESAM Université, 2, rue Conté, Paris, 75003, France
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- University of Science, VNU-HCM, Viet Nam,Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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- University of Science, VNU-HCM, Viet Nam,Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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- University of Science, VNU-HCM, Viet Nam,Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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- University of Science, VNU-HCM, Viet Nam,Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam
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- University of Science, VNU-HCM, Viet Nam,Vietnam National University, Ho Chi Minh City, Viet Nam,John von Neumann Institute, VNU-HCM, Viet Nam
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- Laboratoire de Génomique, Bio-informatique et Chimie Moléculaire (GBCM), EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts-et-Métiers, HESAM Université, 2, rue Conté, Paris, 75003, France,Corresponding author: (M. Montès)
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Machat M, Langenfeld F, Craciun D, Sirugue L, Labib T, Lagarde N, Maria M, Montes M. Comparative evaluation of shape retrieval methods on macromolecular surfaces: an application of computer vision methods in structural bioinformatics. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:4375-4382. [PMID: 34247232 PMCID: PMC8652110 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab511] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2020] [Revised: 05/18/2021] [Accepted: 07/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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MOTIVATION The investigation of the structure of biological systems at the molecular level gives insights about their functions and dynamics. Shape and surface of biomolecules are fundamental to molecular recognition events. Characterizing their geometry can lead to more adequate predictions of their interactions. In the present work, we assess the performance of reference shape retrieval methods from the computer vision community on protein shapes. RESULTS Shape retrieval methods are efficient in identifying orthologous proteins and tracking large conformational changes. This work illustrates the interest for the protein surface shape as a higher-level representation of the protein structure that (i) abstracts the underlying protein sequence, structure or fold, (ii) allows the use of shape retrieval methods to screen large databases of protein structures to identify surficial homologs and possible interacting partners and (iii) opens an extension of the protein structure-function paradigm toward a protein structure-surface(s)-function paradigm. AVAILABILITYAND IMPLEMENTATION All data are available online at http://datasetmachat.drugdesign.fr. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Mohamed Machat
- Laboratoire GBCM, EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, Paris 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, Paris 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, Paris 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, Paris 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, Paris 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, Paris 75003, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, Paris 75003, France
- Laboratoire XLIM, UMR CNRS 7252, Université de Limoges, Limoges 87000, France
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- Laboratoire GBCM, EA 7528, Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, Hesam Université, Paris 75003, France
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Ahmadi M, Chen Z. Spotlight onto surfactant-steam-bitumen interfacial behavior via molecular dynamics simulation. Sci Rep 2021; 11:19660. [PMID: 34608190 PMCID: PMC8490457 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-98633-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/10/2021] [Accepted: 09/07/2021] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Heavy oil and bitumen play a vital role in the global energy supply, and to unlock such resources, thermal methods, e.g., steam injection, are applied. To improve the performance of these methods, different additives, such as air, solvents, and chemicals, can be used. As a subset of chemicals, surfactants are one of the potential additives for steam-based bitumen recovery methods. Molecular interactions between surfactant/steam/bitumen have not been addressed in the literature. This paper investigates molecular interactions between anionic surfactants, steam, and bitumen in high-temperature and high-pressure conditions. For this purpose, a real Athabasca oil sand composition is employed to assess the phase behavior of surfactant/steam/bitumen under in-situ steam-based bitumen recovery. Two different asphaltene architectures, archipelago and Island, are used to examine the effect of asphaltene type on bitumen's interfacial behavior. The influence of having sulfur heteroatoms in a resin structure and a benzene ring's effect in an anionic surfactant structure on surfactant-steam-bitumen interactions are investigated systematically. The outputs are supported by different analyses, including radial distribution functions (RDFs), mean squared displacement (MSD), radius of gyration, self-diffusion coefficient, solvent accessible surface area (SASA), interfacial thickness, and interaction energies. According to MD outputs, adding surfactant molecules to the steam phase improved the interaction energy between steam and bitumen. Moreover, surfactants can significantly improve steam emulsification capability by decreasing the interfacial tension (IFT) between bitumen and the steam phase. Asphaltene architecture has a considerable effect on the interfacial behavior in such systems. This study provides a better and more in-depth understanding of surfactant-steam-bitumen systems and spotlights the interactions between bitumen fractions and surfactant molecules under thermal recovery conditions.
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- Mohammadali Ahmadi
- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1T4, Canada.
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- Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, Schulich School of Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, AB, T2N1T4, Canada.
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Ljung F, André I. ZEAL: protein structure alignment based on shape similarity. Bioinformatics 2021; 37:2874-2881. [PMID: 33772587 DOI: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btab205] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2020] [Revised: 02/02/2021] [Accepted: 03/25/2021] [Indexed: 02/02/2023] Open
Abstract
MOTIVATION Most protein-structure superimposition tools consider only Cartesian coordinates. Yet, much of biology happens on the surface of proteins, which is why proteins with shared ancestry and similar function often have comparable surface shapes. Superposition of proteins based on surface shape can enable comparison of highly divergent proteins, identify convergent evolution and enable detailed comparison of surface features and binding sites. RESULTS We present ZEAL, an interactive tool to superpose global and local protein structures based on their shape resemblance using 3D (Zernike-Canterakis) functions to represent the molecular surface. In a benchmark study of structures with the same fold, we show that ZEAL outperforms two other methods for shape-based superposition. In addition, alignments from ZEAL were of comparable quality to the coordinate-based superpositions provided by TM-align. For comparisons of proteins with limited sequence and backbone-fold similarity, where coordinate-based methods typically fail, ZEAL can often find alignments with substantial surface-shape correspondence. In combination with shape-based matching, ZEAL can be used as a general tool to study relationships between shape and protein function. We identify several categories of protein functions where global shape similarity is significantly more likely than expected by random chance, when comparing proteins with little similarity on the fold level. In particular, we find that global surface shape similarity is particular common among DNA binding proteins. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION ZEAL can be used online at https://andrelab.org/zeal or as a standalone program with command line or graphical user interface. Source files and installers are available at https://github.com/Andre-lab/ZEAL. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Filip Ljung
- Division of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Lund SE-22100, Sweden
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- Division of Biochemistry and Structural Biology, Department of Chemistry, Lund University, Lund SE-22100, Sweden
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Taneja I, Holehouse AS. Folded domain charge properties influence the conformational behavior of disordered tails. Curr Res Struct Biol 2021; 3:216-228. [PMID: 34557680 PMCID: PMC8446786 DOI: 10.1016/j.crstbi.2021.08.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2021] [Accepted: 08/26/2021] [Indexed: 12/22/2022] Open
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Intrinsically disordered proteins and protein regions (IDRs) make up around 30% of the human proteome where they play essential roles in dictating and regulating many core biological processes. While IDRs are often studied as isolated domains, in naturally occurring proteins most IDRs are found adjacent to folded domains, where they exist as either N- or C-terminal tails or as linkers connecting two folded domains. Prior work has shown that charge properties of IDRs can influence their conformational behavior, both in isolation and in the context of folded domains. In contrast, the converse scenario is less well-explored: how do the charge properties of folded domains influence IDR conformational behavior? To answer this question, we combined a large-scale structural bioinformatics analysis with all-atom implicit solvent simulations of both rationally designed and naturally occurring proteins. Our results reveal three key takeaways. Firstly, the relative position and accessibility of charged residues across the surface of a folded domain can dictate IDR conformational behavior, overriding expectations based on net surface charge properties. Secondly, naturally occurring proteins possess multiple charge patches that are physically accessible to local IDRs. Finally, even modest changes in the local electrostatic environment of a folded domain can substantially modulate IDR-folded domain interactions. Taken together, our results suggest that folded domain surfaces can act as local determinants of IDR conformational behavior. Intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs) are mostly found adjacent to folded domains. Here we propose that the folded domain surface properties influence IDR behavior. We combine all-atom simulations and sequence design of IDRs and folded domains. IDR conformational behavior is determined by a complex combination of factors. Folded domains can substantially alter IDR conformational biases.
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- Ishan Taneja
- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.,Center for Science and Engineering of Living Systems (CSELS), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Washington University School of Medicine, 660 S. Euclid Ave., St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA.,Center for Science and Engineering of Living Systems (CSELS), Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, 63130, USA
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Wilson L, Krasny R. Comparison of the MSMS and NanoShaper molecular surface triangulation codes in the TABI Poisson-Boltzmann solver. J Comput Chem 2021; 42:1552-1560. [PMID: 34041777 DOI: 10.1002/jcc.26692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2020] [Revised: 03/08/2021] [Accepted: 05/09/2021] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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The Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) implicit solvent model is a popular framework for studying the electrostatics of solvated biomolecules. In this model the dielectric interface between the biomolecule and solvent is often taken to be the molecular surface or solvent-excluded surface (SES), and the quality of the SES triangulation is critical in boundary element simulations of the model. This work compares the performance of the MSMS and NanoShaper surface triangulation codes for a set of 38 biomolecules. While MSMS produces triangles of exceedingly small area and large aspect ratio, the two codes yield comparable values for the SES surface area and electrostatic solvation energy, where the latter calculations were performed using the treecode-accelerated boundary integral (TABI) PB solver. However we found that NanoShaper is computationally more efficient and reliable than MSMS, especially when parameters are set to produce highly resolved triangulations.
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- Leighton Wilson
- Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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- Department of Mathematics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
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Herbert JM. Dielectric continuum methods for quantum chemistry. WILEY INTERDISCIPLINARY REVIEWS-COMPUTATIONAL MOLECULAR SCIENCE 2021. [DOI: 10.1002/wcms.1519] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022]
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- John M. Herbert
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry The Ohio State University Columbus Ohio USA
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Coventry B, Baker D. Protein sequence optimization with a pairwise decomposable penalty for buried unsatisfied hydrogen bonds. PLoS Comput Biol 2021; 17:e1008061. [PMID: 33684097 PMCID: PMC7971855 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1008061] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/11/2020] [Revised: 03/18/2021] [Accepted: 02/12/2021] [Indexed: 11/18/2022] Open
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In aqueous solution, polar groups make hydrogen bonds with water, and hence burial of such groups in the interior of a protein is unfavorable unless the loss of hydrogen bonds with water is compensated by formation of new ones with other protein groups. For this reason, buried “unsatisfied” polar groups making no hydrogen bonds are very rare in proteins. Efficiently representing the energetic cost of unsatisfied hydrogen bonds with a pairwise-decomposable energy term during protein design is challenging since whether or not a group is satisfied depends on all of its neighbors. Here we describe a method for assigning a pairwise-decomposable energy to sidechain rotamers such that following combinatorial sidechain packing, buried unsaturated polar atoms are penalized. The penalty can be any quadratic function of the number of unsatisfied polar groups, and can be computed very rapidly. We show that inclusion of this term in Rosetta sidechain packing calculations substantially reduces the number of buried unsatisfied polar groups. We present an algorithm that fits into existing protein design software that allows researchers to penalize unsatisfied polar atoms in protein structures during design. These polar atoms usually make hydrogen-bonds to other polar atoms or water molecules and the absence of such interactions leaves them unsatisfied energetically. Penalizing this condition is tricky because protein design software only looks at pairs of amino acids when considering which amino acids to choose. Current approaches to solve this problem use additive approaches where satisfaction or unsatisfaction is approximated on a continuous scale; however, in reality, satisfaction or unsatisfaction is an all-or-none condition. The simplest all-or-none method is to penalize polar atoms for simply existing and then to give a bonus any time they are satisfied. This fails when two different amino acids satisfy the same atom; the pairwise nature of the protein design software will double count the satisfaction bonus. Here we show that by anticipating the situation where two amino acids satisfy the same polar atom, we can apply a penalty to the two amino acids in advance and assume the polar atom will be there. This scheme correctly penalizes unsatisfied polar atoms and does not fall victim to overcounting.
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- Brian Coventry
- Molecular Engineering & Sciences Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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- Institute for Protein Design, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Department of Biochemistry, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
- Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, United States of America
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Gil N, Shrestha R, Fiser A. Estimating the accuracy of pharmacophore-based detection of cognate receptor-ligand pairs in the immunoglobulin superfamily. Proteins 2021; 89:632-638. [PMID: 33483991 DOI: 10.1002/prot.26046] [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: 02/06/2020] [Revised: 10/26/2020] [Accepted: 12/27/2020] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Secreted and membrane-bound members of the immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) encompass a large, diverse array of proteins that play central roles in immune response and neural development, and are implicated in diseases ranging from cancer to rheumatoid arthritis. Despite the potential biomedical benefits of understanding IgSF:IgSF cognate receptor-ligand interactions, relatively little about them is known at a molecular level, and experimentally probing all possible receptor-ligand pairs is prohibitively costly. The Protein Ligand Interface Design (ProtLID) algorithm is a computational pharmacophore-based approach to identify cognate receptor-ligand pairs that was recently validated in a pilot study on a small set of IgSF complexes. Although ProtLID has shown a success rate of 61% at identifying at least one cognate ligand for a given receptor, it currently lacks any form of confidence measure that can prioritize individual receptor-ligand predictions to pursue experimentally. In this study, we expanded the application of ProtLID to cover all IgSF complexes with available structural data. In addition, we introduced an approach to estimate the confidence of predictions made by ProtLID based on a statistical analysis of how the ProtLID-constructed pharmacophore matches the structures of candidate ligands. The confidence score combines the physicochemical compatibility, spatial consistency, and mathematical skewness of the distribution of matches throughout a set of candidate ligands. Our results suggest that a subset of cases meeting stringent confidence criteria will always have at least one successful receptor-ligand prediction.
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- Nelson Gil
- Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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- Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, USA
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Bier I, Marom N. Machine Learned Model for Solid Form Volume Estimation Based on Packing-Accessible Surface and Molecular Topological Fragments. J Phys Chem A 2020; 124:10330-10345. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpca.0c06791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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- Imanuel Bier
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Chemistry, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
- Department of Physics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States
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Kim S, Sureka HV, Kayitmazer AB, Wang G, Swan JW, Olsen BD. Effect of Protein Surface Charge Distribution on Protein–Polyelectrolyte Complexation. Biomacromolecules 2020; 21:3026-3037. [DOI: 10.1021/acs.biomac.0c00346] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023]
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- Sieun Kim
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 02139 Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Moinpour M, Barker NK, Guzman LE, Jewett JC, Langlais PR, Schwartz JC. Discriminating changes in protein structure using tyrosine conjugation. Protein Sci 2020; 29:1784-1793. [PMID: 32483864 DOI: 10.1002/pro.3897] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/29/2020] [Revised: 05/22/2020] [Accepted: 05/26/2020] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Chemical modification of proteins has been crucial in engineering protein-based therapies, targeted biopharmaceutics, molecular probes, and biomaterials. Here, we explore the use of a conjugation-based approach to sense alternative conformational states in proteins. Tyrosine has both hydrophobic and hydrophilic qualities, thus allowing it to be positioned at protein surfaces, or binding interfaces, or to be buried within a protein. Tyrosine can be conjugated with 4-phenyl-3H-1,2,4-triazole-3,5(4H)-dione (PTAD). We hypothesized that individual protein conformations could be distinguished by labeling tyrosine residues in the protein with PTAD. We conjugated tyrosine residues in a well-folded protein, bovine serum albumin (BSA), and quantified labeled tyrosine with liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry. We applied this approach to alternative conformations of BSA produced in the presence of urea. The amount of PTAD labeling was found to relate to the depth of each tyrosine relative to the protein surface. This study demonstrates a new use of tyrosine conjugation using PTAD as an analytic tool able to distinguish the conformational states of a protein.
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- Mahta Moinpour
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona, USA
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Lange AW, Herbert JM, Albrecht BJ, You ZQ. Intrinsically smooth discretisation of Connolly's solvent-excluded molecular surface. Mol Phys 2019. [DOI: 10.1080/00268976.2019.1644384] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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- Adrian W. Lange
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
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Wong ETC, Gsponer J. Predicting Protein-Protein Interfaces that Bind Intrinsically Disordered Protein Regions. J Mol Biol 2019; 431:3157-3178. [PMID: 31207240 DOI: 10.1016/j.jmb.2019.06.010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/08/2019] [Revised: 06/01/2019] [Accepted: 06/04/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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A long-standing goal in biology is the complete annotation of function and structure on all protein-protein interactions, a large fraction of which is mediated by intrinsically disordered protein regions (IDRs). However, knowledge derived from experimental structures of such protein complexes is disproportionately small due, in part, to challenges in studying interactions of IDRs. Here, we introduce IDRBind, a computational method that by combining gradient boosted trees and conditional random field models predicts binding sites of IDRs with performance approaching state-of-the-art globular interface predictions, making it suitable for proteome-wide applications. Although designed and trained with a focus on molecular recognition features, which are long interaction-mediating-elements in IDRs, IDRBind also predicts the binding sites of short peptides more accurately than existing specialized predictors. Consistent with IDRBind's specificity, a comparison of protein interface categories uncovered uniform trends in multiple physicochemical properties, positioning molecular recognition feature interfaces between peptide and globular interfaces.
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- Eric T C Wong
- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada
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- Michael Smith Laboratories, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Computational Redesign of PD-1 Interface for PD-L1 Ligand Selectivity. Structure 2019; 27:829-836.e3. [PMID: 30930066 PMCID: PMC6745709 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2019.03.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/27/2018] [Revised: 11/16/2018] [Accepted: 03/07/2019] [Indexed: 12/31/2022]
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Chronic or persistent stimulation of the programmed cell death-1 (PD-1) pathway prevents T cells from mounting anti-tumor and anti-viral immune responses. Blockade of this inhibitory checkpoint pathway has shown therapeutic importance by rescuing T cells from their exhausted state. Cognate ligands of the PD-1 receptor include the tissue-specific PD-L1 and PD-L2 proteins. Engineering a human PD-1 interface specific for PD-L1 or PD-L2 can provide a specific reagent and therapeutic advantage for tissue-specific disruption of the PD-1 pathway. We utilized ProtLID, a computational framework, which constitutes a residue-based pharmacophore approach, to custom-design a human PD-1 interface specific to human PD-L1 without any significant affinity to PD-L2. In subsequent cell assay experiments, half of all single-point mutant designs proved to introduce a statistically significant selectivity, with nine of these maintaining a close to wild-type affinity to PD-L1. This proof-of-concept study suggests a general approach to re-engineer protein interfaces for specificity.
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A global map of the protein shape universe. PLoS Comput Biol 2019; 15:e1006969. [PMID: 30978181 PMCID: PMC6481876 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1006969] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/15/2018] [Revised: 04/24/2019] [Accepted: 03/20/2019] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Proteins are involved in almost all functions in a living cell, and functions of proteins are realized by their tertiary structures. Obtaining a global perspective of the variety and distribution of protein structures lays a foundation for our understanding of the building principle of protein structures. In light of the rapid accumulation of low-resolution structure data from electron tomography and cryo-electron microscopy, here we map and classify three-dimensional (3D) surface shapes of proteins into a similarity space. Surface shapes of proteins were represented with 3D Zernike descriptors, mathematical moment-based invariants, which have previously been demonstrated effective for biomolecular structure similarity search. In addition to single chains of proteins, we have also analyzed the shape space occupied by protein complexes. From the mapping, we have obtained various new insights into the relationship between shapes, main-chain folds, and complex formation. The unique view obtained from shape mapping opens up new ways to understand design principles, functions, and evolution of proteins. Proteins are the major molecules involved in almost all cellular processes. In this work, we present a novel mapping of protein shapes that represents the variety and the similarities of 3D shapes of proteins and their assemblies. This mapping provides various novel insights into protein shapes including determinant factors of protein 3D shapes, which enhance our understanding of the design principles of protein shapes. The mapping will also be a valuable resource for artificial protein design as well as references for classifying medium- to low-resolution protein structure images of determined by cryo-electron microscopy and tomography.
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Bauer MR, Mackey MD. Electrostatic Complementarity as a Fast and Effective Tool to Optimize Binding and Selectivity of Protein-Ligand Complexes. J Med Chem 2019; 62:3036-3050. [PMID: 30807144 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jmedchem.8b01925] [Citation(s) in RCA: 81] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
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Electrostatic interactions between small molecules and their respective receptors are essential for molecular recognition and are also key contributors to the binding free energy. Assessing the electrostatic match of protein-ligand complexes therefore provides important insights into why ligands bind and what can be changed to improve binding. Ideally, the ligand and protein electrostatic potentials at the protein-ligand interaction interface should maximize their complementarity while minimizing desolvation penalties. In this work, we present a fast and efficient tool to calculate and visualize the electrostatic complementarity (EC) of protein-ligand complexes. We compiled benchmark sets demonstrating electrostatically driven structure-activity relationships (SAR) from literature data, including kinase, protein-protein interaction, and GPCR targets, and used these to demonstrate that the EC method can visualize, rationalize, and predict electrostatically driven ligand affinity changes and help to predict compound selectivity. The methodology presented here for the analysis of EC is a powerful and versatile tool for drug design.
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- Matthias R Bauer
- Cresset, New Cambridge House , Bassingbourn Road , Litlington , Cambridgeshire SG8 0SS , U.K
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- Cresset, New Cambridge House , Bassingbourn Road , Litlington , Cambridgeshire SG8 0SS , U.K
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Awsiuk K, Petrou P, Thanassoulas A, Raczkowska J. Orientation of Biotin-Binding Sites in Streptavidin Adsorbed onto the Surface of Polythiophene Films. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2019; 35:3058-3066. [PMID: 30696244 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.8b03509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/09/2023]
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The orientation of biotin-binding sites of streptavidin adsorbed to thin films of three polythiophenes (PTs), namely, regioregular poly(3-hexylthiophene) (RP3HT), regiorandom poly(3-butylthiophene) (P3BT), and poly(3,3‴-didodecylquaterthiophene) (PQT12), has been investigated. Polymer films were examined prior to and after protein adsorption with atomic force microscopy and time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS). Principal component analysis (PCA) applied to ToF-SIMS data revealed subtle changes in surface chemistry of polymer films and orientation of adsorbed streptavidin. PCA resolved the surface alignment of alkyl side chains and differentiated the ToF-SIMS data for PQT12, RP3HT, and P3BT, verifying an amorphous morphology for P3BT and a semicrystalline one for PQT12 and RP3HT. After the characterization of the polymeric films, streptavidin adsorption from solutions with different protein concentrations (up to 300 μg/mL) has been conducted. The PCA results distinguished between amino acids characteristic for external regions of streptavidin molecules adsorbed to different PTs suggest that streptavidin adsorbed to PQT12 exposes molecular regions rich in tryptophan and tyrosine, which are components of the biotin-binding sites. The latter results were confirmed using biotin-labeled horse radish peroxidase to estimate the exposed binding sites of streptavidin adsorbed onto the different PT films. The analysis of streptavidin structure suggests that interaction between polythiophene film and dipole moment of streptavidin subunit is responsible for orientation of biotin-binding sites.
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- Kamil Awsiuk
- M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics , Jagiellonian University , Łojasiewicza 11 , 30-348 Kraków , Poland
- Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences & Technology, Energy & Safety , NCSR Demokritos , 15310 Agia Paraskevi , Greece
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- Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences & Technology, Energy & Safety , NCSR Demokritos , 15310 Agia Paraskevi , Greece
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- Institute of Nuclear & Radiological Sciences & Technology, Energy & Safety , NCSR Demokritos , 15310 Agia Paraskevi , Greece
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- M. Smoluchowski Institute of Physics , Jagiellonian University , Łojasiewicza 11 , 30-348 Kraków , Poland
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Gui S, Khan D, Wang Q, Yan DM, Lu BZ. Frontiers in biomolecular mesh generation and molecular visualization systems. Vis Comput Ind Biomed Art 2018; 1:7. [PMID: 32240387 PMCID: PMC7099538 DOI: 10.1186/s42492-018-0007-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2018] [Accepted: 07/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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With the development of biomolecular modeling and simulation, especially implicit solvent modeling, higher requirements are set for the stability, efficiency and mesh quality of molecular mesh generation software. In this review, we summarize the recent works in biomolecular mesh generation and molecular visualization. First, we introduce various definitions of molecular surface and corresponding meshing software. Second, as the mesh quality significantly influences biomolecular simulation, we investigate some remeshing methods in the fields of computer graphics and molecular modeling. Then, we show the application of biomolecular mesh in the boundary element method (BEM) and the finite element method (FEM). Finally, to conveniently visualize the numerical results based on the mesh, we present two types of molecular visualization systems.
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- Sheng Gui
- LSEC, NCMIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China.
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China.
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- National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- LSEC, NCMIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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- LSEC, NCMIS, Academy of Mathematics and Systems Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
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Gao S, Song S, Cheng J, Todo Y, Zhou M. Incorporation of Solvent Effect into Multi-Objective Evolutionary Algorithm for Improved Protein Structure Prediction. IEEE/ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS 2018; 15:1365-1378. [PMID: 28534784 DOI: 10.1109/tcbb.2017.2705094] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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The problem of predicting the three-dimensional (3-D) structure of a protein from its one-dimensional sequence has been called the "holy grail of molecular biology", and it has become an important part of structural genomics projects. Despite the rapid developments in computer technology and computational intelligence, it remains challenging and fascinating. In this paper, to solve it we propose a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm. We decompose the protein energy function Chemistry at HARvard Macromolecular Mechanics force fields into bond and non-bond energies as the first and second objectives. Considering the effect of solvent, we innovatively adopt a solvent-accessible surface area as the third objective. We use 66 benchmark proteins to verify the proposed method and obtain better or competitive results in comparison with the existing methods. The results suggest the necessity to incorporate the effect of solvent into a multi-objective evolutionary algorithm to improve protein structure prediction in terms of accuracy and efficiency.
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Motivation: Protein–protein interactions are a key in virtually all biological processes. For a detailed understanding of the biological processes, the structure of the protein complex is essential. Given the current experimental techniques for structure determination, the vast majority of all protein complexes will never be solved by experimental techniques. In lack of experimental data, computational docking methods can be used to predict the structure of the protein complex. A common strategy is to generate many alternative docking solutions (atomic models) and then use a scoring function to select the best. The success of the computational docking technique is, to a large degree, dependent on the ability of the scoring function to accurately rank and score the many alternative docking models. Results: Here, we present ProQDock, a scoring function that predicts the absolute quality of docking model measured by a novel protein docking quality score (DockQ). ProQDock uses support vector machines trained to predict the quality of protein docking models using features that can be calculated from the docking model itself. By combining different types of features describing both the protein–protein interface and the overall physical chemistry, it was possible to improve the correlation with DockQ from 0.25 for the best individual feature (electrostatic complementarity) to 0.49 for the final version of ProQDock. ProQDock performed better than the state-of-the-art methods ZRANK and ZRANK2 in terms of correlations, ranking and finding correct models on an independent test set. Finally, we also demonstrate that it is possible to combine ProQDock with ZRANK and ZRANK2 to improve performance even further. Availability and implementation:http://bioinfo.ifm.liu.se/ProQDock Contact:bjornw@ifm.liu.se Supplementary information:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
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- Sankar Basu
- Division of Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping SE-581 83, Sweden
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- Division of Bioinformatics, Department of Physics, Chemistry and Biology, Linköping University, Linköping SE-581 83, Sweden
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Gaseous ligand selectivity of the H-NOX sensor protein from Shewanella oneidensis and comparison to those of other bacterial H-NOXs and soluble guanylyl cyclase. Biochimie 2017; 140:82-92. [PMID: 28655588 DOI: 10.1016/j.biochi.2017.06.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/03/2017] [Accepted: 06/23/2017] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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To delineate the commonalities and differences in gaseous ligand discrimination among the heme-based sensors with Heme Nitric oxide/OXygen binding protein (H-NOX) scaffold, the binding kinetic parameters for gaseous ligands NO, CO, and O2, including KD, kon, and koff, of Shewanella oneidensis H-NOX (So H-NOX) were characterized in detail in this study and compared to those of previously characterized H-NOXs from Clostridium botulinum (Cb H-NOX), Nostoc sp. (Ns H-NOX), Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis (Tt H-NOX), Vibrio cholera (Vc H-NOX), and human soluble guanylyl cyclase (sGC), an H-NOX analogue. The KD(NO) and KD(CO) of each bacterial H-NOX or sGC follow the "sliding scale rule"; the affinities of the bacterial H-NOXs for NO and CO vary in a small range but stronger than those of sGC by at least two orders of magnitude. On the other hand, each bacterial H-NOX exhibits different characters in the stability of its 6c NO complex, reactivity with secondary NO, stability of oxyferrous heme and autoxidation to ferric heme. A facile access channel for gaseous ligands is also identified, implying that ligand access has only minimal effect on gaseous ligand selectivity of H-NOXs or sGC. This comparative study of the binding parameters of the bacterial H-NOXs and sGC provides a basis to guide future new structural and functional studies of each specific heme sensor with the H-NOX protein fold.
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Salt-bridge networks within globular and disordered proteins: characterizing trends for designable interactions. J Mol Model 2017. [PMID: 28626846 DOI: 10.1007/s00894-017-3376-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/19/2022]
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There has been considerable debate about the contribution of salt bridges to the stabilization of protein folds, in spite of their participation in crucial protein functions. Salt bridges appear to contribute to the activity-stability trade-off within proteins by bringing high-entropy charged amino acids into close contacts during the course of their functions. The current study analyzes the modes of association of salt bridges (in terms of networks) within globular proteins and at protein-protein interfaces. While the most common and trivial type of salt bridge is the isolated salt bridge, bifurcated salt bridge appears to be a distinct salt-bridge motif having a special topology and geometry. Bifurcated salt bridges are found ubiquitously in proteins and interprotein complexes. Interesting and attractive examples presenting different modes of interaction are highlighted. Bifurcated salt bridges appear to function as molecular clips that are used to stitch together large surface contours at interacting protein interfaces. The present work also emphasizes the key role of salt-bridge-mediated interactions in the partial folding of proteins containing long stretches of disordered regions. Salt-bridge-mediated interactions seem to be pivotal to the promotion of "disorder-to-order" transitions in small disordered protein fragments and their stabilization upon binding. The results obtained in this work should help to guide efforts to elucidate the modus operandi of these partially disordered proteins, and to conceptualize how these proteins manage to maintain the required amount of disorder even in their bound forms. This work could also potentially facilitate explorations of geometrically specific designable salt bridges through the characterization of composite salt-bridge networks. Graphical abstract ᅟ.
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RNAHelix: computational modeling of nucleic acid structures with Watson–Crick and non-canonical base pairs. J Comput Aided Mol Des 2017; 31:219-235. [DOI: 10.1007/s10822-016-0007-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2016] [Accepted: 12/29/2016] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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Xie Y, Ying J, Xie D. SMPBS: Web server for computing biomolecular electrostatics using finite element solvers of size modified Poisson-Boltzmann equation. J Comput Chem 2017; 38:541-552. [DOI: 10.1002/jcc.24703] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/26/2016] [Revised: 11/21/2016] [Accepted: 11/27/2016] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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- Yang Xie
- Department of Computer Science; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201
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- Department of Mathematical Sciences; University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; Milwaukee Wisconsin 53201
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Yap EH, Fiser A. ProtLID, a Residue-Based Pharmacophore Approach to Identify Cognate Protein Ligands in the Immunoglobulin Superfamily. Structure 2016; 24:2217-2226. [PMID: 27889206 PMCID: PMC5444293 DOI: 10.1016/j.str.2016.10.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/04/2015] [Revised: 07/26/2016] [Accepted: 10/25/2016] [Indexed: 10/20/2022]
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Members of the extracellular immunoglobulin superfamily (IgSF) play a key role in immune regulation through the control of the co-stimulatory pathway, and have emerged as potent drug targets in cancers, infectious diseases, and autoimmunity. Despite the difficult experimental access to this class of proteins, single structures of ectodomains of IgSF proteins are solved with regularity. However, the most biologically critical challenge for this class of proteins is the identification of their cognate ligands that communicate intercellular signals. We describe a conceptually novel method, protein-ligand interface design (ProtLID), to identify cognate ligands from a subproteome for a given target receptor protein. ProtLID designs an optimal protein interface for a given receptor by running extensive molecular dynamics simulations of single-residue probes. The type and location of residue preferences establish a residue-based pharmacophore, which is subsequently used to find potential matches among candidate ligands within a subproteome.
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- Eng-Hui Yap
- Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA
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- Department of Systems and Computational Biology, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA; Department of Biochemistry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, 1300 Morris Park Avenue, Bronx, NY 10461, USA.
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New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1: structure, inhibitors and detection of producers. Future Med Chem 2016; 8:993-1012. [PMID: 27253479 DOI: 10.4155/fmc-2016-0015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/11/2023] Open
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Since its discovery in 2008, New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-1 (NDM-1)-producing Enterobacteriaceae have disseminated globally, facilitated predominantly by gut colonization and the spread of plasmids carrying the bla NDM-1 gene. With few effective antibiotics against NDM-1 producers, and resistance developing to those which remain, there is an urgent need to develop new treatments. To date, most drug design in this area has been focused on developing an NDM-1 inhibitor and has been aided by the wealth of structural and mechanistic information available from high resolution x-ray crystallography and molecular modeling. This review aims to summarize current knowledge regarding the detection of NDM-1 producers, the mechanism of action of NDM-1 and to highlight recent attempts toward the development of clinically useful inhibitors.
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Filamenting temperature-sensitive mutant Z (FtsZ), an essential cell division protein in bacteria, has recently emerged as an important and exploitable antibacterial target. Cytokinesis in bacteria is regulated by the assembly dynamics of this protein, which is ubiquitously present in eubacteria. The perturbation of FtsZ assembly has been found to have a deleterious effect on the cytokinetic machinery and, in turn, upon cell survival. FtsZ is highly conserved among prokaryotes, offering the possibility of broad-spectrum antibacterial agents, while its limited sequence homology with tubulin (an essential protein in eukaryotic mitosis) offers the possibility of selective toxicity. This review aims to summarize current knowledge regarding the mechanism of action of FtsZ, and to highlight existing attempts toward the development of clinically useful inhibitors.
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Calculating solvent accessible surface areas (SASA) is a run-of-the-mill calculation in structural biology. Although there are many programs available for this calculation, there are no free-standing, open-source tools designed for easy tool-chain integration. FreeSASA is an open source C library for SASA calculations that provides both command-line and Python interfaces in addition to its C API. The library implements both Lee and Richards’ and Shrake and Rupley’s approximations, and is highly configurable to allow the user to control molecular parameters, accuracy and output granularity. It only depends on standard C libraries and should therefore be easy to compile and install on any platform. The library is well-documented, stable and efficient. The command-line interface can easily replace closed source legacy programs, with comparable or better accuracy and speed, and with some added functionality.
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Computing Discrete Fine-Grained Representations of Protein Surfaces. COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE METHODS FOR BIOINFORMATICS AND BIOSTATISTICS 2016. [DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-44332-4_14] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Liu Y, Yang J, Chen LM. Structure and Function of SLC4 Family [Formula: see text] Transporters. Front Physiol 2015; 6:355. [PMID: 26648873 PMCID: PMC4664831 DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2015.00355] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2015] [Accepted: 11/10/2015] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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The solute carrier SLC4 family consists of 10 members, nine of which are [Formula: see text] transporters, including three Na(+)-independent Cl(-)/[Formula: see text] exchangers AE1, AE2, and AE3, five Na(+)-coupled [Formula: see text] transporters NBCe1, NBCe2, NBCn1, NBCn2, and NDCBE, as well as "AE4" whose Na(+)-dependence remains controversial. The SLC4 [Formula: see text] transporters play critical roles in pH regulation and transepithelial movement of electrolytes with a broad range of demonstrated physiological relevances. Dysfunctions of these transporters are associated with a series of human diseases. During the past decades, tremendous amount of effort has been undertaken to investigate the topological organization of the SLC4 transporters in the plasma membrane. Based upon the proposed topology models, mutational and functional studies have identified important structural elements likely involved in the ion translocation by the SLC4 transporters. In the present article, we review the advances during the past decades in understanding the structure and function of the SLC4 transporters.
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- Ying Liu
- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, Department of Biophysics and Molecular Physiology, School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan, China
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- Department of Physiology and Pathophysiology, School of Basic Medical Sciences, Peking University Health Science CenterBeijing, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Biophysics of Ministry of Education, Department of Biophysics and Molecular Physiology, School of Life Science and Technology, Huazhong University of Science and TechnologyWuhan, China
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