Sharma, Ronesh and Kumar, Shiu and Tsunoda, T. and Patil, A and Sharma, Alokanand (2016) Predicting MoRFs in protein sequences using HMM profiles. BMC Bioinformatics, 17 (19). pp. 504-512. ISSN 1471-2105
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Abstract
Background: Intrinsically Disordered Proteins (IDPs) lack an ordered three-dimensional structure and are enriched in
various biological processes. The Molecular Recognition Features (MoRFs) are functional regions within IDPs that
undergo a disorder-to-order transition on binding to a partner protein. Identifying MoRFs in IDPs using computational
methods is a challenging task.
Methods: In this study, we introduce hidden Markov model (HMM) profiles to accurately identify the location of
MoRFs in disordered protein sequences. Using windowing technique, HMM profiles are utilised to extract features from
protein sequences and support vector machines (SVM) are used to calculate a propensity score for each residue. Two
different SVM kernels with high noise tolerance are evaluated with a varying window size and the scores of the SVM
models are combined to generate the final propensity score to predict MoRF residues. The SVM models are designed
to extract maximal information between MoRF residues, its neighboring regions (Flanks) and the remainder of the
sequence (Others).
Results: To evaluate the proposed method, its performance was compared to that of other MoRF predictors;
MoRFpred and ANCHOR. The results show that the proposed method outperforms these two predictors.
Conclusions: Using HMM profile as a source of feature extraction, the proposed method indicates improvement in
predicting MoRFs in disordered protein sequences
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| 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 04:14 |
| Last Modified: | 10 Sep 2017 23:58 |
| URI: | https://repository.usp.ac.fj/id/eprint/9661 |
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