Revealing Subtle Functional Subgroups in Class A Scavenger Receptors by Pattern Discovery and Disentanglement of Aligned Pattern Clusters

Autor: Pei-Yuan Zhou, En-Shiun Annie Lee, Antonio Sze-To, Andrew K. C. Wong
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2018
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Zdroj: Proteomes, Vol 6, Iss 1, p 10 (2018)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2227-7382
DOI: 10.3390/proteomes6010010
Popis: A protein family has similar and diverse functions locally conserved as aligned sequence segments. Further discovering their association patterns could reveal subtle family subgroup characteristics. Since aligned residues associations (ARAs) in Aligned Pattern Clusters (APCs) are complex and intertwined due to entangled function, factors, and variance in the source environment, we have recently developed a novel method: Aligned Residue Association Discovery and Disentanglement (ARADD) to solve this problem. ARADD first obtains from an APC an ARA Frequency Matrix and converts it to an adjusted statistical residual vector space (SRV). It then disentangles the SRV into Principal Components (PCs) and Re-projects their vectors to a SRV to reveal succinct orthogonal AR groups. In this study, we applied ARADD to class A scavenger receptors (SR-A), a subclass of a diverse protein family binding to modified lipoproteins with diverse biological functionalities not explicitly known. Our experimental results demonstrated that ARADD can unveil subtle subgroups in sequence segments with diverse functionality and highly variable sequence lengths. We also demonstrated that the ARAs captured in a Position Weight Matrix or an APC were entangled in biological function and domain location but disentangled by ARADD to reveal different subclasses without knowing their actual occurrence positions.
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