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Using statistical domain-domain interaction potentials to predict dimeric structures from sequences

Author(s): Sascha Willuweit, Patrick May
Affiliations: Institute of Legal Medicine, Deptartment for Forensic Genetics, Charite - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany
Contact:email: sascha.willuweit@charite.de, patrick.may@zib.de
Keywords: structural and computational genomics

Background/Introduction

Many biological processes such as signal transduction, transport, cellular motion and regulatory mechanisms are mediated by domain-domain interactions, thus the study of such interactions could gain our understanding of protein function. We have collected 90,166 distinct domain-domain interactions based on 36,837 Protein Databank (PDB) structures [1,2] together with their quaternary assembly given by the corresponding biounit files. Each domain was classified according to the SCOP [3] Version 1.69, allowing us to assign every domain-domain interaction to one of the 2,219 SCOP superfamily-superfamily clusters we identified. With this dataset we build several distinct residue-based statistical potentials [4,5] using the following variable interaction criterias: distance between heavy atoms of two residues, secondary structure and solvent exposure. These criteria combinations were evaluated in all common classes of interactions (heterodimer, homodimer, inter-chain and intra-chain) using a simple gapless threading algorithm, which should recognize the native interacting residues based on one of the potentials specified above. We found one statistical potential with appropriate parameter set to have the best results in all interaction classes: residues have to be exposed or intermediate solvent exposure with a distance less or equal to 4.0 Ängström and no restriction of secondary structure types. The simple gapless threading algorithm recognised the native interactions with 84.4% as the best, with 99.1% within the top five best and with 99.5% within the top ten best interactions. Additional experiments were performed with an extended version of our Branch-and-Bound-based protein threading core THESEUS [6,7], that was extended by additional constraints to take the contribution of the domain-domain interaction potential into account. THESEUS was able to predict 3D structures of several domain-domain interactions for selected examples.

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