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DNA Motif Recognition Modeling from Protein Sequences.

ABSTRACT: Although the existing works on DNA motif discovery on DNA sequences are plethoric, mechanistic knowledge to infer DNA motifs from protein sequences across multiple DNA-binding domain families without conducting any wet-lab experiments is still lacking. Therefore, the k-spectrum recognition modeling is proposed to address the issues at the highest possible resolutions. The k-spectrum model can capture DNA motif patterns from protein sequences at the resolution in which local sequence context and nucleotide dependency can be taken into account completely. Multiple evaluation metrics are adopted and measured on millions of k-mer binding intensities from 92 proteins across 5 DNA-binding families (i.e., bHLH, bZIP, ETS, Forkhead, and Homeodomain), demonstrating its competitive edges. In addition, it not only can contribute to DNA motif recognition modeling but also can help prioritize the observed or even unobserved binding of single nucleotide variants on transcription factor binding sites in a genome-wide manner.

SUBMITTER: Wong KC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6153143 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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DNA Motif Recognition Modeling from Protein Sequences.

Wong Ka-Chun KC

iScience 20180910

Although the existing works on DNA motif discovery on DNA sequences are plethoric, mechanistic knowledge to infer DNA motifs from protein sequences across multiple DNA-binding domain families without conducting any wet-lab experiments is still lacking. Therefore, the k-spectrum recognition modeling is proposed to address the issues at the highest possible resolutions. The k-spectrum model can capture DNA motif patterns from protein sequences at the resolution in which local sequence context and ...[more]

PMID: 30267681

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Project description:BackgroundMotif discovery aims to detect short, highly conserved patterns in a collection of unaligned DNA or protein sequences. Discriminative motif finding algorithms aim to increase the sensitivity and selectivity of motif discovery by utilizing a second set of sequences, and searching only for patterns that can differentiate the two sets of sequences. Potential applications of discriminative motif discovery include discovering transcription factor binding site motifs in ChIP-chip data and finding protein motifs involved in thermal stability using sets of orthologous proteins from thermophilic and mesophilic organisms.ResultsWe describe DEME, a discriminative motif discovery algorithm for use with protein and DNA sequences. Input to DEME is two sets of sequences; a "positive" set and a "negative" set. DEME represents motifs using a probabilistic model, and uses a novel combination of global and local search to find the motif that optimally discriminates between the two sets of sequences. DEME is unique among discriminative motif finders in that it uses an informative Bayesian prior on protein motif columns, allowing it to incorporate prior knowledge of residue characteristics. We also introduce four, synthetic, discriminative motif discovery problems that are designed for evaluating discriminative motif finders in various biologically motivated contexts. We test DEME using these synthetic problems and on two biological problems: finding yeast transcription factor binding motifs in ChIP-chip data, and finding motifs that discriminate between groups of thermophilic and mesophilic orthologous proteins.ConclusionUsing artificial data, we show that DEME is more effective than a non-discriminative approach when there are "decoy" motifs or when a variant of the motif is present in the "negative" sequences. With real data, we show that DEME is as good, but not better than non-discriminative algorithms at discovering yeast transcription factor binding motifs. We also show that DEME can find highly informative thermal-stability protein motifs. Binaries for the stand-alone program DEME is free for academic use and is available at http://bioinformatics.org.au/deme/

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DNA Motif Recognition Modeling from Protein Sequences.

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DNA Motif Recognition Modeling from Protein Sequences.

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