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Inferring joint sequence-structural determinants of protein functional specificity.


ABSTRACT: Residues responsible for allostery, cooperativity, and other subtle but functionally important interactions remain difficult to detect. To aid such detection, we employ statistical inference based on the assumption that residues distinguishing a protein subgroup from evolutionarily divergent subgroups often constitute an interacting functional network. We identify such networks with the aid of two measures of statistical significance. One measure aids identification of divergent subgroups based on distinguishing residue patterns. For each subgroup, a second measure identifies structural interactions involving pattern residues. Such interactions are derived either from atomic coordinates or from Direct Coupling Analysis scores, used as surrogates for structural distances. Applying this approach to N-acetyltransferases, P-loop GTPases, RNA helicases, synaptojanin-superfamily phosphatases and nucleases, and thymine/uracil DNA glycosylases yielded results congruent with biochemical understanding of these proteins, and also revealed striking sequence-structural features overlooked by other methods. These and similar analyses can aid the design of drugs targeting allosteric sites.

SUBMITTER: Neuwald AF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5770160 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Inferring joint sequence-structural determinants of protein functional specificity.

Neuwald Andrew F AF   Aravind L L   Altschul Stephen F SF  

eLife 20180116


Residues responsible for allostery, cooperativity, and other subtle but functionally important interactions remain difficult to detect. To aid such detection, we employ statistical inference based on the assumption that residues distinguishing a protein subgroup from evolutionarily divergent subgroups often constitute an interacting functional network. We identify such networks with the aid of two measures of statistical significance. One measure aids identification of divergent subgroups based  ...[more]

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