Background/Objective:
Protein-protein interactions are essentials for most cellular
processes and thus, unveiling how proteins interact with is a crucial question that can be better
understood by recognizing which residues participate in the interaction. Although many
computational approaches have been proposed to predict interface residues, their feature
perspective and model learning ability are not enough to achieve ideal results. So, our objective is
to improve the predictive performance under considering feature perspective and new learning
algorithm.
Method:
In this study, we proposed an ensemble deep convolutional neural network, which
explores the context and positional context of consecutive residues within a protein sub-sequence.
Specifically, unlike the feature view of previous methods, ConvsPPIS uses evolutionary,
physicochemical, and structural protein characteristics to construct their own feature graph
respectively. After that, three independent deep convolutional neural networks are trained on each
type of feature graph for learning the underlying pattern in sub-sequence. Lastly, we integrated
those three deep networks into an ensemble predictor with leveraging complementary information
of those features to predict potential interface residues.
Results:
Some comparative experiments have conducted through 10-fold cross-validation. The
results indicated that ConvsPPIS achieved superior performance on DBv5-Sel dataset with an
accuracy of 88%. Additional experiments on CAPRI-Alone dataset demonstrated ConvsPPIS has
also better prediction performance.
Conclusion:
The ConvsPPIS method provided a new perspective to capture protein feature
expression for identifying protein-protein interaction sites. The results proved the superiority of
this method.
2P-243 The prediction of protein-protein interaction sites in sequences using a naive bayes classifier with a kernel density estimation(Bioinformatics:Functional genomics,The 47th Annual Meeting of the Biophysical Society of Japan)