Highly Accurate Sequence-based Prediction of Half-Sphere Exposures of Amino Acid Residues in Proteins

Heffernan, R. and Dehzangi, Abdollah and Lyons, J. and Paliwal, K.K. and Sharma, Alokanand and Wang, J. and Sattar, A. and Zhou, Y. and Yang, Y. (2016) Highly Accurate Sequence-based Prediction of Half-Sphere Exposures of Amino Acid Residues in Proteins. Bioinformatics, 32 (6). pp. 843-849. ISSN 1367-4803

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Abstract

MOTIVATION:
Solvent exposure of amino acid residues of proteins plays an important role in understanding and predicting protein structure, function and interactions. Solvent exposure can be characterized by several measures including solvent accessible surface area (ASA), residue depth (RD) and contact numbers (CN). More recently, an orientation-dependent contact number called half-sphere exposure (HSE) was introduced by separating the contacts within upper and down half spheres defined according to the Cα-Cβ (HSEβ) vector or neighboring Cα-Cα vectors (HSEα). HSEα calculated from protein structures was found to better describe the solvent exposure over ASA, CN and RD in many applications. Thus, a sequence-based prediction is desirable, as most proteins do not have experimentally determined structures. To our best knowledge, there is no method to predict HSEα and only one method to predict HSEβ.
RESULTS:
This study developed a novel method for predicting both HSEα and HSEβ (SPIDER-HSE) that achieved a consistent performance for 10-fold cross validation and two independent tests. The correlation coefficients between predicted and measured HSEβ (0.73 for upper sphere, 0.69 for down sphere and 0.76 for contact numbers) for the independent test set of 1199 proteins are significantly higher than existing methods. Moreover, predicted HSEα has a higher correlation coefficient (0.46) to the stability change by residue mutants than predicted HSEβ (0.37) and ASA (0.43). The results, together with its easy Cα-atom-based calculation, highlight the potential usefulness of predicted HSEα for protein structure prediction and refinement as well as function prediction.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Subjects:	Q Science > Q Science (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Science, Technology and Environment (FSTE) > School of Engineering and Physics
Depositing User:	Fulori Nainoca - Waqairagata
Date Deposited:	08 Mar 2017 02:04
Last Modified:	24 Mar 2017 22:18
URI:	https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/9655

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