Combining automated peak tracking in SAR by NMR with structure-based backbone assignment from 15N-NOESY

BMC Bioinformatics

Proceedings

Ming Li¹  Richard Jang¹  Xin Gao² 

[1] David R Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada;Division of Mathematical and Computer Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, 23955 KSA, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia;

关键词: Protein Data Bank;    Resonance Assignment;    Peak List;    Ambiguous Mapping;    Chemical Shift Change;   

DOI  :  10.1186/1471-2105-13-S3-S4

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

BackgroundChemical shift mapping is an important technique in NMR-based drug screening for identifying the atoms of a target protein that potentially bind to a drug molecule upon the molecule's introduction in increasing concentrations. The goal is to obtain a mapping of peaks with known residue assignment from the reference spectrum of the unbound protein to peaks with unknown assignment in the target spectrum of the bound protein. Although a series of perturbed spectra help to trace a path from reference peaks to target peaks, a one-to-one mapping generally is not possible, especially for large proteins, due to errors, such as noise peaks, missing peaks, missing but then reappearing, overlapped, and new peaks not associated with any peaks in the reference. Due to these difficulties, the mapping is typically done manually or semi-automatically, which is not efficient for high-throughput drug screening.ResultsWe present PeakWalker, a novel peak walking algorithm for fast-exchange systems that models the errors explicitly and performs many-to-one mapping. On the proteins: hBclXL, UbcH5B, and histone H1, it achieves an average accuracy of over 95% with less than 1.5 residues predicted per target peak. Given these mappings as input, we present PeakAssigner, a novel combined structure-based backbone resonance and NOE assignment algorithm that uses just 15N-NOESY, while avoiding TOCSY experiments and 13C-labeling, to resolve the ambiguities for a one-to-one mapping. On the three proteins, it achieves an average accuracy of 94% or better.ConclusionsOur mathematical programming approach for modeling chemical shift mapping as a graph problem, while modeling the errors directly, is potentially a time- and cost-effective first step for high-throughput drug screening based on limited NMR data and homologous 3D structures.

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