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In Silico Classification of Proteins from Acidic and Neutral Cytoplasms
Fang, Yaping ; Middaugh, C. Russell ; Fang, Jianwen
Fang, Yaping
Middaugh, C. Russell
Fang, Jianwen
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Abstract
Protein acidostability is a common problem in biopharmaceutical and other industries. However, it remains a great challenge to engineer proteins for enhanced acidostability because our knowledge of protein acidostabilization is still very limited. In this paper, we present a comparative study of proteins from bacteria with acidic (AP) and neutral cytoplasms (NP) using an integrated statistical and machine learning approach. We construct a set of 393 non-redundant AP-NP ortholog pairs and calculate a total of 889 sequence based features for these proteins. The pairwise alignments of these ortholog pairs are used to build a residue substitution propensity matrix between APs and NPs. We use Gini importance provided by the Random Forest algorithm to rank the relative importance of these features. A scoring function using the 10 most significant features is developed and optimized using a hill climbing algorithm. The accuracy of the score function is 86.01% in predicting AP-NP ortholog pairs and is 76.65% in predicting non-ortholog AP-NP pairs, suggesting that there are significant differences between APs and NPs which can be used to predict relative acidostability of proteins. The overall trends uncovered in the study can be used as general guidelines for designing acidostable proteins. To best of our knowledge, this work represents the first systematic comparative study of the acidostable proteins and their non-acidostable orthologs.
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2012-09-26
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Public Library of Science
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Amino acid analysis, Amino acid substitutuion, Blast algorithm, Cytoplasm, Protein sequencing, Protein structure, Sequence alignment, Sequence similarity searching
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Fang, Y., Middaugh, C. R., & Fang, J. (2012). In Silico Classification of Proteins from Acidic and Neutral Cytoplasms. PLoS ONE, 7(9). http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0045585