A computational study of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: structural prediction and functional inference of hypothetical proteins

Autor: Frank W. Larimer, Alexander S. Beliaev, Christal Yost, Loren Hauser, Jizhong Zhou, Dong Xu, Dorothea K. Thompson, Ying Xu
Rok vydání: 2003
Předmět:
Models
Molecular

Protein Folding
Shewanella
Databases
Factual

Protein Conformation
Amino Acid Motifs
computer.software_genre
Biochemistry
Genome
Protein Structure
Secondary

Protein structure
Shewanella oneidensis
Databases
Protein

Conserved Sequence
Heat-Shock Proteins
biology
Chromosome Mapping
Molecular Medicine
Protein folding
Databases
Nucleic Acid

Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic Interactions
Algorithms
Biotechnology
Signal peptide
Dynamins
Iron
Molecular Sequence Data
Sequence alignment
Protein Sorting Signals
Machine learning
Amidohydrolases
Bacterial Proteins
Genetics
Amino Acid Sequence
Molecular Biology
Molybdenum
Microarray analysis techniques
business.industry
Computational Biology
biology.organism_classification
Protein Structure
Tertiary

Repressor Proteins
Structural Homology
Protein

ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters
Artificial intelligence
Threading (protein sequence)
business
Carrier Proteins
computer
Sequence Alignment
Genome
Bacterial
Zdroj: Omics : a journal of integrative biology. 7(2)
ISSN: 1536-2310
Popis: The genomes of many organisms have been sequenced in the last 5 years. Typically about 30% of predicted genes from a newly sequenced genome cannot be given functional assignments using sequence comparison methods. In these situations three-dimensional structural predictions combined with a suite of computational tools can suggest possible functions for these hypothetical proteins. Suggesting functions may allow better interpretation of experimental data (e.g., microarray data and mass spectroscopy data) and help experimentalists design new experiments. In this paper, we focus on three hypothetical proteins of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 that are potentially related to iron transport/metabolism based on microarray experiments. The threading program PROSPECT was used for protein structural predictions and functional annotation, in conjunction with literature search and other computational tools. Computational tools were used to perform transmembrane domain predictions, coiled coil predictions, signal peptide predictions, sub-cellular localization predictions, motif prediction, and operon structure evaluations. Combined computational results from all tools were used to predict roles for the hypothetical proteins. This method, which uses a suite of computational tools that are freely available to academic users, can be used to annotate hypothetical proteins in general.
Databáze: OpenAIRE