Título

A simple extension to the CMASA method for the prediction of catalytic residues in the presence of single point mutations

Autor

David Israel Flores Granados

Colaborador

ROGERIO RAFAEL SOTELO MUNDO (Colaborador)

Brizuela Rodríguez, C. A. (Colaborador)

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Identificador alterno

doi: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108513

Resumen o descripción

The automatic identification of catalytic residues still remains an important challenge in structural bioinformatics. Sequence-based methods are good alternatives when the query shares a high percentage of identity with a well-annotated enzyme. However, when the homology is not apparent, which occurs with many structures from the structural genome initiative, structural information should be exploited. A local structural comparison is preferred to a global structural comparison when predicting functional residues. CMASA is a recently proposed method for predicting catalytic residues based on a local structure comparison. The method achieves high accuracy and a high value for the Matthews correlation coefficient. However, point substitutions or a lack of relevant data strongly affect the performance of the method. In the present study, we propose a simple extension to the CMASA method to overcome this difficulty. Extensive computational experiments are shown as proof of concept instances, as well as for a few real cases. The results show that the extension performs well when the catalytic site contains mutated residues or when some residues are missing. The proposed modification could correctly predict the catalytic residues of a mutant thymidylate synthase, 1EVF. It also successfully predicted the catalytic residues for 3HRC despite the lack of information for a relevant side chain atom in the PDB file. © 2014 Flores et al.

Editor

Manuela Helmer-Citterich, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy

Fecha de publicación

2014

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Versión de la publicación

Versión publicada

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application/pdf

Fuente

PLoS ONE, Vol.9, No.9, Pags.

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Inglés

Sugerencia de citación

Flores DI, Sotelo-Mundo RR, Brizuela CA (2014) A Simple Extension to the CMASA Method for the Prediction of Catalytic Residues in the Presence of Single Point Mutations. PLoS ONE 9(9): e108513. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0108513

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