Identification of local variations within secondary structures of proteins

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (5) ◽  
pp. 1077-1086 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prasun Kumar ◽  
Manju Bansal

Secondary-structure elements (SSEs) play an important role in the folding of proteins. Identification of SSEs in proteins is a common problem in structural biology. A new method,ASSP(Assignment ofSecondaryStructure inProteins), using only the path traversed by the Cαatoms has been developed. The algorithm is based on the premise that the protein structure can be divided into continuous or uniform stretches, which can be defined in terms of helical parameters, and depending on their values the stretches can be classified into different SSEs, namely α-helices, 310-helices, π-helices, extended β-strands and polyproline II (PPII) and other left-handed helices. The methodology was validated using an unbiased clustering of these parameters for a protein data set consisting of 1008 protein chains, which suggested that there are seven well defined clusters associated with different SSEs. Apart from α-helices and extended β-strands, 310-helices and π-helices were also found to occur in substantial numbers.ASSPwas able to discriminate non-α-helical segments from flanking α-helices, which were often identified as part of α-helices by other algorithms.ASSPcan also lead to the identification of novel SSEs. It is believed thatASSPcould provide a better understanding of the finer nuances of protein secondary structure and could make an important contribution to the better understanding of comparatively less frequently occurring structural motifs. At the same time, it can contribute to the identification of novel SSEs. A standalone version of the program for the Linux as well as the Windows operating systems is freely downloadable and a web-server version is also available at http://nucleix.mbu.iisc.ernet.in/assp/index.php.

Author(s):  
Zhiliang Lyu ◽  
Zhijin Wang ◽  
Fangfang Luo ◽  
Jianwei Shuai ◽  
Yandong Huang

Protein secondary structures have been identified as the links in the physical processes of primary sequences, typically random coils, folding into functional tertiary structures that enable proteins to involve a variety of biological events in life science. Therefore, an efficient protein secondary structure predictor is of importance especially when the structure of an amino acid sequence fragment is not solved by high-resolution experiments, such as X-ray crystallography, cryo-electron microscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, which are usually time consuming and expensive. In this paper, a reductive deep learning model MLPRNN has been proposed to predict either 3-state or 8-state protein secondary structures. The prediction accuracy by the MLPRNN on the publicly available benchmark CB513 data set is comparable with those by other state-of-the-art models. More importantly, taking into account the reductive architecture, MLPRNN could be a baseline for future developments.


2005 ◽  
Vol 85 (4) ◽  
pp. 437-448 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. Yu ◽  
J. J. McKinnon ◽  
H. W. Soita ◽  
C. R. Christensen ◽  
D. A. Christensen

The objectives of the study were to use synchrotron Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy (S-FTIR) as a novel approach to: (1) reveal ultra-structural chemical features of protein secondary structures of flaxseed tissues affected by variety (golden and brown) and heat processing (raw and roasted), and (2) quantify protein secondary structures using Gaussian and Lorentzian methods of multi-component peak modeling. By using multi-component peak modeling at protein amide I region of 1700–1620 cm-1, the results showed that the golden flaxseed contained relatively higher percentage of α-helix (47.1 vs. 36.9%), lower percentage of β-sheet (37.2 vs. 46.3%) and higher (P < 0.05) ratio of α-helix to β-sheet than the brown flaxseed (1.3 vs. 0.8). The roasting reduced (P < 0.05) percentage of α-helix (from 47.1 to 36.1%), increased percentage of β-sheet (from 37.2 to 49.8%) and reduced α-helix to β-sheet ratio (1.3 to 0.7) of the golden flaxseed tissues. However, the roasting did not affect percentage and ratio of α-helix and β-sheet in the brown flaxseed tissue. No significant differences were found in quantification of protein secondary structures between Gaussian and Lorentzian methods. These results demonstrate the potential of highly spatially resolved S-FTIR to localize relatively pure protein in the tissue and reveal protein secondary structures at a cellular level. The results indicated relative differences in protein secondary structures between flaxseed varieties and differences in sensitivities of protein secondary structure to the heat processing. Further study is needed to understand the relationship between protein secondary structure and protein digestion and utilization of flaxseed and to investigate whether the changes in the relative amounts of protein secondary structures are primarily responsible for differences in protein availability. Key words: Synchrotron, FTIR microspectrosopy, flaxseeds, intrinsic structural matrix, protein secondary structures, protein nutritive value


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (17) ◽  
pp. 6721-6726 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vincent Hall ◽  
Anthony Nash ◽  
Alison Rodger

SSNN is a self-organising map neural network approach for estimating protein structure from circular dichroism (CD) spectra. The method for using SSNN is described here, and SSNN is compared with CDSSTR, a well-known methodology for finding secondary structures from CD. SSNN compares well with similar methodologies.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Larry Bliss ◽  
Ben Pascoe ◽  
Samuel K Sheppard

AbstractMotivationProtein structure predictions, that combine theoretical chemistry and bioinformatics, are an increasingly important technique in biotechnology and biomedical research, for example in the design of novel enzymes and drugs. Here, we present a new ensemble bi-layered machine learning architecture, that directly builds on ten existing pipelines providing rapid, high accuracy, 3-State secondary structure prediction of proteins.ResultsAfter training on 1348 solved protein structures, we evaluated the model with four independent datasets: JPRED4 - compiled by the authors of the successful predictor with the same name, and CASP11, CASP12 & CASP13 - assembled by the Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction consortium who run biannual experiments focused on objective testing of predictors. These rigorous, pre-established protocols included 7-fold cross-validation and blind testing. This led to a mean Hermes accuracy of 95.5%, significantly (p<0.05) better than the ten previously published models analysed in this paper. Furthermore, Hermes yielded a reduction in standard deviation, lower boundary outliers, and reduced dependency on solved structures of homologous proteins, as measured by NEFF score. This architecture provides advantages over other pipelines, while remaining accessible to users at any level of bioinformatics experience.Availability and ImplementationThe source code for Hermes is freely available at: https://github.com/HermesPrediction/Hermes. This page also includes the cross-validation with corresponding models, and all training/testing data presented in this study with predictions and accuracy.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satya Nanda Vel Arjunan ◽  
Safaai Deris ◽  
Rosli Md Illias

Dengan wujudnya projek jujukan DNA secara besar-besaran, teknik yang tepat untuk meramalkan struktur protein diperlukan. Masalah meramalkan struktur protein daripada jujukan DNA pada dasarnya masih belum dapat diselesaikan walaupun kajian intensif telah dilakukan selama lebih daripada tiga dekad. Dalam kertas kerja ini, teori asas struktur protein akan dibincangkan sebagai panduan umum bagi kajian peramalan struktur protein sekunder. Analisis jujukan terkini serta prinsi p yang digunakan dalam teknik-teknik tersebut akan diterangkan. Kata kunci: peramalan stuktur sekunder protein; rangkaian neural. In the wake of large-scale DNA sequencing projects, accurate tools are needed to predict protein structures. The problem of predicting protein structure from DNA sequence remains fundamentally unsolved even after more than three decades of intensive research. In this paper, fundamental theory of the protein structure of the protein structure will be presented as a general guide to protein secondary structure prediction research. An overview of the state-of-theart in sequence analysis and some princi ples of the methods invloved wil be described. Key words: protein secondary structure prediction;neural networks.


2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Satya Nanda Vel Arjunan ◽  
Safaai Deris ◽  
Rosli Md Illias

Dengan wujudnya projek jujukan DNA secara besar–besaran, teknik yang tepat untuk meramalkan struktur protein diperlukan. Masalah meramalkan struktur protein daripada jujukan DNA pada dasarnya masih belum dapat diselesaikan walaupun kajian intensif telah dilakukan selama lebih daripada tiga dekad. Dalam kertas kerja ini, teori asas struktur protein akan dibincangkan sebagai panduan umum bagi kajian peramalan struktur protein sekunder. Analisis jujukan terkini serta prinsip yang digunakan dalam teknik–teknik tersebut akan diterangkan. Kata kunci: Peramalan struktur sekunder protein; Rangkaian Neural In the wake of large-scale DNA sequencing projects, accurate tools are needed to predict protein structures. The problem of predicting protein structure from DNA sequence remains fundamentally unsolved even after more than three decades of intensive research. In this paper, fundamental theory of the protein structure will be presented as a general guide to protein secondary structure prediction research. An overview of the state–of–the–art in sequence analysis and some principles of the methods involved wil be described. Key words: Protein secondary structure prediction; Neural networks


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
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Jie Hou

Protein structure prediction is one of the most important scientific problems in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology. The availability of protein three-dimensional (3D) structure is crucial for studying biological and cellular functions of proteins. The importance of four major sub-problems in protein structure prediction have been clearly recognized. Those include, first, protein secondary structure prediction, second, protein fold recognition, third, protein quality assessment, and fourth, multi-domain assembly. In recent years, deep learning techniques have proved to be a highly effective machine learning method, which has brought revolutionary advances in computer vision, speech recognition and bioinformatics. In this dissertation, five contributions are described. First, DNSS2, a method for protein secondary structure prediction using one-dimensional deep convolution network. Second, DeepSF, a method of applying deep convolutional network to classify protein sequence into one of thousands known folds. Third, CNNQA and DeepRank, two deep neural network approaches to systematically evaluate the quality of predicted protein structures and select the most accurate model as the final protein structure prediction. Fourth, MULTICOM, a protein structure prediction system empowered by deep learning and protein contact prediction. Finally, SAXSDOM, a data-assisted method for protein domain assembly using small-angle X-ray scattering data. All the methods are available as software tools or web servers which are freely available to the scientific community.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jisna Vellara Antony ◽  
Prayagh Madhu ◽  
Jayaraj Pottekkattuvalappil Balakrishnan

AbstractKnowledge about protein structure assignment enriches the structural and functional understanding of proteins. Accurate and reliable structure assignment data is crucial for secondary structure prediction systems. Since the ’80s various methods based on hydrogen bond analysis and atomic coordinate geometry, followed by Machine Learning, have been employed in protein structure assignment. However, the assignment process becomes challenging when missing atoms are present in protein files. Our model develops a multi-class classifier program named DLFSA for assigning protein Secondary Structure Elements(SSE) using Convolutional Neural Networks(CNN). A fast and efficient GPU based parallel procedure extracts fragments from protein files. The model implemented in this work is trained with a subset of protein fragments and achieves 88.1% and 82.5% train and test accuracy, respectively. Our model uses only Cα coordinates for secondary structure assignments. The model is successfully tested on a few full-length proteins also. Results from the fragment-based studies demonstrate the feasibility of applying deep learning solutions for structure assignment problems.


2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-83
Author(s):  
P. Agalya ◽  
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V. Velusamy

a-helix, þ-sheet, þ-turns, and random coils are the three-dimensional local segments that constitute a protein secondary structure. Molecular vibrations of proteins are sensitive to structural organizations of peptide chains hence Fourier Transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy is one of the recognized techniques for the identification of protein secondary structures. However, the lower frequency region of FTIR especially the amide VI bands (in the region 590-490cm-1) is little studied for proteins. Further, the effect of sugar-free natura on ovalbumin stability is not yet studied to our knowledge. The present study examines the conformational changes in the secondary structure of ovalbumin (OVA) protein under the influence of pH variations (2, 5, 7, 9, and 12) and also cosolvent sugar-free Natura (SFN) inclusion. From the primary absorption spectra of the amide VI bands, the second derivative analysis is furnished to quantify the secondary structural elements of protein thereby conformational changes are analyzed. From obtained results, it is found that conformational changes occur between two major secondary structures of a-helix and þ-sheet of OVA due to variation of pH and inclusion of cosolvent. Also, the results confirm that the denaturation of OVA in the presence of SFN irrespective of pH.


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