Effects of using coding potential, sequence conservation and mRNA structure conservation for predicting pyrrolysine containing genes
| Autor: | Christian Theil Have, Sine Zambach, Henning Christiansen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Pyrrolysine
Sequence alignment Biology Biochemistry Conserved sequence Evolution Molecular Open Reading Frames chemistry.chemical_compound Genome Archaeal Structural Biology Cluster Analysis RNA Messenger Molecular Biology Gene Conserved Sequence chemistry.chemical_classification Genetics Base Sequence Lysine Applied Mathematics Translation (biology) Genomics Methyltransferases Computer Science Applications Amino acid Open reading frame chemistry Protein Biosynthesis Codon Terminator DNA microarray Sequence Alignment Genome Bacterial Research Article |
| Zdroj: | BMC Bioinformatics |
| ISSN: | 1471-2105 |
| DOI: | 10.1186/1471-2105-14-118 |
| Popis: | Background Pyrrolysine (the 22nd amino acid) is in certain organisms and under certain circumstances encoded by the amber stop codon, UAG. The circumstances driving pyrrolysine translation are not well understood. The involvement of a predicted mRNA structure in the region downstream UAG has been suggested, but the structure does not seem to be present in all pyrrolysine incorporating genes. Results We propose a strategy to predict pyrrolysine encoding genes in genomes of archaea and bacteria. We cluster open reading frames interrupted by the amber codon based on sequence similarity. We rank these clusters according to several features that may influence pyrrolysine translation. The ranking effects of different features are assessed and we propose a weighted combination of these features which best explains the currently known pyrrolysine incorporating genes. We devote special attention to the effect of structural conservation and provide further substantiation to support that structural conservation may be influential – but is not a necessary factor. Finally, from the weighted ranking, we identify a number of potentially pyrrolysine incorporating genes. Conclusions We propose a method for prediction of pyrrolysine incorporating genes in genomes of bacteria and archaea leading to insights about the factors driving pyrrolysine translation and identification of new gene candidates. The method predicts known conserved genes with high recall and predicts several other promising candidates for experimental verification. The method is implemented as a computational pipeline which is available on request. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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