دورية أكاديمية

A coevolution analysis for identifying protein-protein interactions by Fourier transform.

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: A coevolution analysis for identifying protein-protein interactions by Fourier transform.
المؤلفون: Changchuan Yin, Stephen S-T Yau
المصدر: PLoS ONE, Vol 12, Iss 4, p e0174862 (2017)
بيانات النشر: Public Library of Science (PLoS), 2017.
سنة النشر: 2017
المجموعة: LCC:Medicine
LCC:Science
مصطلحات موضوعية: Medicine, Science
الوصف: Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play key roles in life processes, such as signal transduction, transcription regulations, and immune response, etc. Identification of PPIs enables better understanding of the functional networks within a cell. Common experimental methods for identifying PPIs are time consuming and expensive. However, recent developments in computational approaches for inferring PPIs from protein sequences based on coevolution theory avoid these problems. In the coevolution theory model, interacted proteins may show coevolutionary mutations and have similar phylogenetic trees. The existing coevolution methods depend on multiple sequence alignments (MSA); however, the MSA-based coevolution methods often produce high false positive interactions. In this paper, we present a computational method using an alignment-free approach to accurately detect PPIs and reduce false positives. In the method, protein sequences are numerically represented by biochemical properties of amino acids, which reflect the structural and functional differences of proteins. Fourier transform is applied to the numerical representation of protein sequences to capture the dissimilarities of protein sequences in biophysical context. The method is assessed for predicting PPIs in Ebola virus. The results indicate strong coevolution between the protein pairs (NP-VP24, NP-VP30, NP-VP40, VP24-VP30, VP24-VP40, and VP30-VP40). The method is also validated for PPIs in influenza and E.coli genomes. Since our method can reduce false positive and increase the specificity of PPI prediction, it offers an effective tool to understand mechanisms of disease pathogens and find potential targets for drug design. The Python programs in this study are available to public at URL (https://github.com/cyinbox/PPI).
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1932-6203
Relation: http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5400233?pdf=render; https://doaj.org/toc/1932-6203
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0174862
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/0fded5aa1b2b4af1849faeeb5a5fa891
رقم الأكسشن: edsdoj.0fded5aa1b2b4af1849faeeb5a5fa891
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:19326203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0174862