Evaluating the accuracy of protein design using native secondary sub-structures

BMC Bioinformatics

Research Article

Seyed Shahriar Arab¹  Fatemeh Zare-Mirakabad²  Marziyeh Movahedi² 

[1] Department of Biophysics, Faculty of Biological Sciences Tarbiat Modares University (TMU), Tehran, Iran;Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran;

关键词: Protein design;    Protein structure prediction;    Evolutionary information;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12859-016-1199-y

 received in 2016-03-23, accepted in 2016-08-24,  发布年份 2016

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundAccording to structure-dependent function of proteins, two main challenging problems called Protein Structure Prediction (PSP) and Inverse Protein Folding (IPF) are investigated. In spite of IPF essential applications, it has not been investigated as much as PSP problem.In fact, the ultimate goal of IPF problem or protein design is to create proteins with enhanced properties or even novel functions. One of the major computational challenges in protein design is its large sequence space, namely searching through all plausible sequences is impossible. Inasmuch as, protein secondary structure represents an appropriate primary scaffold of the protein conformation, undoubtedly studying the Protein Secondary Structure Inverse Folding (PSSIF) problem is a quantum leap forward in protein design, as it can reduce the search space.In this paper, a novel genetic algorithm which uses native secondary sub-structures is proposed to solve PSSIF problem. In essence, evolutionary information can lead the algorithm to design appropriate amino acid sequences respective to the target secondary structures. Furthermore, they can be folded to tertiary structures almost similar to their reference 3D structures.ResultsThe proposed algorithm called GAPSSIF benefits from evolutionary information obtained by solved proteins in the PDB. Therefore, we construct a repository of protein secondary sub-structures to accelerate convergence of the algorithm.The secondary structure of designed sequences by GAPSSIF is comparable with those obtained by Evolver and EvoDesign. Although we do not explicitly consider tertiary structure features through the algorithm, the structural similarity of native and designed sequences declares acceptable values.ConclusionsUsing the evolutionary information of native structures can significantly improve the quality of designed sequences. In fact, the combination of this information and effective features such as solvent accessibility and torsion angles leads IPF problem to an efficient solution. GAPSSIF can be downloaded at http://bioinformatics.aut.ac.ir/GAPSSIF/.

【 授权许可】

CC BY   
© The Author(s). 2016

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