De-orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features.
Function prediction frequently relies on comparing genes or gene products to search for relevant similarities. Because the number of protein structures with unknown function is mushrooming, however, we asked here whether such comparisons could be improved by focusing narrowly on the key functional f...
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| author | R Matthew Ward Serkan Erdin Tuan A Tran David M Kristensen Andreas Martin Lisewski Olivier Lichtarge |
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| description | Function prediction frequently relies on comparing genes or gene products to search for relevant similarities. Because the number of protein structures with unknown function is mushrooming, however, we asked here whether such comparisons could be improved by focusing narrowly on the key functional features of protein structures, as defined by the Evolutionary Trace (ET). Therefore a series of algorithms was built to (a) extract local motifs (3D templates) from protein structures based on ET ranking of residue importance; (b) to assess their geometric and evolutionary similarity to other structures; and (c) to transfer enzyme annotation whenever a plurality was reached across matches. Whereas a prototype had only been 80% accurate and was not scalable, here a speedy new matching algorithm enabled large-scale searches for reciprocal matches and thus raised annotation specificity to 100% in both positive and negative controls of 49 enzymes and 50 non-enzymes, respectively-in one case even identifying an annotation error-while maintaining sensitivity ( approximately 60%). Critically, this Evolutionary Trace Annotation (ETA) pipeline requires no prior knowledge of functional mechanisms. It could thus be applied in a large-scale retrospective study of 1218 structural genomics enzymes and reached 92% accuracy. Likewise, it was applied to all 2935 unannotated structural genomics proteins and predicted enzymatic functions in 320 cases: 258 on first pass and 62 more on second pass. Controls and initial analyses suggest that these predictions are reliable. Thus the large-scale evolutionary integration of sequence-structure-function data, here through reciprocal identification of local, functionally important structural features, may contribute significantly to de-orphaning the structural proteome. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d39e1689c3b440b2a32d399f57e0c1812022-12-22T02:21:36ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032008-05-0135e213610.1371/journal.pone.0002136De-orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features.R Matthew WardSerkan ErdinTuan A TranDavid M KristensenAndreas Martin LisewskiOlivier LichtargeFunction prediction frequently relies on comparing genes or gene products to search for relevant similarities. Because the number of protein structures with unknown function is mushrooming, however, we asked here whether such comparisons could be improved by focusing narrowly on the key functional features of protein structures, as defined by the Evolutionary Trace (ET). Therefore a series of algorithms was built to (a) extract local motifs (3D templates) from protein structures based on ET ranking of residue importance; (b) to assess their geometric and evolutionary similarity to other structures; and (c) to transfer enzyme annotation whenever a plurality was reached across matches. Whereas a prototype had only been 80% accurate and was not scalable, here a speedy new matching algorithm enabled large-scale searches for reciprocal matches and thus raised annotation specificity to 100% in both positive and negative controls of 49 enzymes and 50 non-enzymes, respectively-in one case even identifying an annotation error-while maintaining sensitivity ( approximately 60%). Critically, this Evolutionary Trace Annotation (ETA) pipeline requires no prior knowledge of functional mechanisms. It could thus be applied in a large-scale retrospective study of 1218 structural genomics enzymes and reached 92% accuracy. Likewise, it was applied to all 2935 unannotated structural genomics proteins and predicted enzymatic functions in 320 cases: 258 on first pass and 62 more on second pass. Controls and initial analyses suggest that these predictions are reliable. Thus the large-scale evolutionary integration of sequence-structure-function data, here through reciprocal identification of local, functionally important structural features, may contribute significantly to de-orphaning the structural proteome.http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2362850?pdf=render |
| spellingShingle | R Matthew Ward Serkan Erdin Tuan A Tran David M Kristensen Andreas Martin Lisewski Olivier Lichtarge De-orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features. PLoS ONE |
| title | De-orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features. |
| title_full | De-orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features. |
| title_fullStr | De-orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features. |
| title_full_unstemmed | De-orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features. |
| title_short | De-orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features. |
| title_sort | de orphaning the structural proteome through reciprocal comparison of evolutionarily important structural features |
| url | http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2362850?pdf=render |
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