相似性比对预测蛋白质亚细胞区间

【目的】对蛋白质所属的亚细胞区间进行预测,为进一步研究蛋白质的生物学功能提供基础。【方法】以蛋白质序列的氨基酸组成、二肽、伪氨基酸组成作为序列特征,用BLAST比对改进K最近邻分类算法(K-nearest neighbor,KNN)实现蛋白序列所属亚细胞区间预测。【结果】在Jackknife检验下,数据集CH317三种特征的成功率分别为91.5%、91.5%和89.3%,数据集ZD98成功率分别为93.9%、92.9%和89.8%。【结论】BLAST比对改进KNN算法是预测蛋白质亚细胞区间的一种有效方法。     

基于分段伪氨基酸组成成分特征提取方法预测蛋白质亚细胞定位

蛋白质的亚细胞定位与蛋白质的功能密切相关,其定位预测有助于人们了解蛋白质功能.文章提出一种分段伪氨基酸组成成分特征提取方法,采用支持向量机算法对Chou构建的两个蛋白质亚细胞定位数据集(C2129,CS2423)进行了分类研究,并采用总分类精度Q3、内容平衡精度指数Q9等参数评估预测分类系统性能.预测结果表明,基于分段伪氨基酸组成成分特征提取方法的预测性能,优于基于完整蛋白质序列的伪氨基酸组成成分特征提取方法.例如,基于分段矩描述子伪氨基酸组成成分特征提取方法,数据集C2129的Q3和Q9分别为84.7%和60.8%,比基于完整蛋白质序列的矩描述子伪氨基酸组成成分特征提取方法分别提高1.8和2.2个百分点,且Q3比现有Xiao等人的方法提高了9.1个百分点.基于分段伪氨基酸组成成分特征提取方法构成的特征向量不仅包含残基之间的位置信息,而且还包含蛋白质子序列之问的耦合信息,另外蛋白质分段子序列可能和蛋白质的功能域有一定的联系,从而使这一方法能够有效地预测蛋白质亚细胞定位.     

基于多层次稀疏编码预测蛋白质亚细胞定位

文中提出了一种简单有效的蛋白质亚细胞区间定位预测方法,为进一步了解蛋白质的功能和性质提供理论基础。运用稀疏编码,结合氨基酸组成信息提取蛋白质序列特征,基于不同字典大小对得到的特征进行多层次池化整合,并送入支持向量机进行分类。经Jackknife检验,在数据集ZD98、CH317和Gram1253上的预测成功率分别达到95.9%、93.4%和94.7%。实验证明基于多层次稀疏编码的分类预测算法能显著提高蛋白质亚细胞区间定位的预测精度。     

基于近似熵的伪氨基酸组成预测蛋白质亚核定位

了解真核细胞中细胞核内蛋白质的定位情况对于新发现蛋白质的功能注释具有重要意义.随着蛋白质数据库中蛋白质序列数量的急速增加,采用计算方法来预测蛋白质亚核定位已经成为蛋白质科学领域研究的热点.根据Chou提出的伪氨基酸组成离散模型,提出了一种新的蛋白质亚核定位预测方法.计算蛋白质序列的近似熵作为附加特征构建伪氨基酸组成,表示蛋白质序列特征,AdaBoost分类算法作为预测工具.与已报道的亚核定位预测方法的性能相比,这种方法具有更高的准确率.     

基于生物信息学方法预测人线粒体转录终止因子3蛋白的结构与功能

目的:基于生物信息学预测人线粒体转录终止因子3(hMTERF3)蛋白的结构与功能。方法:利用GenBank、Uniprot、ExPASy、SWISS-PROT数据库资源和不同的生物信息学软件对hMTERF3蛋白进行系统研究,包括hMTERF3的理化性质、跨膜区和信号肽、二级结构功能域、亚细胞定位、蛋白质的功能分类预测、同源蛋白质多重序列比对、系统发育树构建、三级结构同源建模。结果:软件预测hMTERF3蛋白的相对分子质量为47.97×103,等电点为8.60,不具信号肽和跨膜区;二级结构分析显示主要为螺旋和无规则卷曲,包含6个MTERF基序,三级结构预测结果与二级结构预测结果相符;亚细胞定位分析结果显示该蛋白定位于人线粒体;功能分类预测其为转运和结合蛋白,参与基因转录调控;同源蛋白质多重序列比对和进化分析显示,hMTERF3蛋白与大鼠、小鼠等哺乳动物的MTERF3蛋白具有高度同源性,在系统发育树上聚为一类。结论:hMTERF3蛋白的生物信息学分析为进一步开展对该蛋白的结构和功能的实验研究提供了理论依据。     

基于氨基酸约化和统计特征的蛋白质亚细胞定位预测

蛋白质亚细胞定位预测对蛋白质的功能、相互作用及调控机制的研究具有重要意义。本文基于物化性质和结构性质对氨基酸的约化,描述序列局部和全局信息的"组成"、"转换"和"分布"特征,并利用氨基酸亲疏水性的数值统计特征,提出了一种新的蛋白质特征表示方法(NSBH)。分别使用三种分类器KNN、SVM及BP神经网络进行蛋白质亚细胞定位预测,比较了几种方法和特征融合方法的预测结果,显示融合特征表示及结合SVM分类器时能够达到更好的预测准确率。同时,还详细讨论了不同参数对实验结果的影响,具体的实验及比较结果显示了该方法的有效性。     

基于位置特异性谱和输入加权神经网络的蛋白质亚细胞定位预测

蛋白质必须处于正确的亚细胞位置才能行使其功能。文章利用PSI-BLAST工具搜索蛋白质序列,提取位点特异性谱中的位点特异性得分矩阵作为蛋白质的一类特征,并计算4等分序列的氨基酸含量以及1～7阶二肽含量作为另外两类特征,由这三类特征一共得到蛋白质序列的12个特征向量。通过设计一个简单加权函数对各类特征向量加权处理,作为神经网络预测器的输入,并使用Levenberg-Marquardt算法代替传统的EBP算法来调整网络权值和阈值,大大提高了训练速度。对具有4类亚细胞位置和12类亚细胞位置的两种蛋白质数据集分别进行＂留一法＂测试和5倍交叉验证测试,总体预测精度分别达到88.4%和83.3%。其中,对4类亚细胞位置数据集的预测效果优于普通BP神经网络、隐马尔可夫模型、模糊K邻近等预测方法,对12类亚细胞位置数据集的预测效果优于支持向量机分类方法。最后还对三类特征采取不同加权比例对预测精度的影响进行了讨论,对选择的八种加权比例的预测结果表明,分别给予三类特征合适的权值系数可以进一步提高预测精度。     

利用分组重量编码预测细胞凋亡蛋白的亚细胞定位

从氨基酸的物化特性出发,利用物理学中“粗粒化”和“分组”的思想,提出了一种新的蛋白质序列特征提取方法——分组重量编码方法。采用组分耦合算法作为分类器,从蛋白质一级序列出发对细胞凋亡蛋白的亚细胞定位进行研究。针对Zhou和Doctor使用的数据集,Re—substitution和Jackknife检验总体预测精度分别为98、O％和85．7％,比基于氨基酸组成和组分耦合算法的总体预测精度提高了7．2％和13．2％;针对陈颖丽和李前忠使用的数据集,Re—substitution和Jackknife检验总体预测精度分别为94．0％和80、1％,比基于二肽组成和离散增量算法的总体预测精度提高了5．9％和2、0％。针对我们自己整理的最新数据集,通过Re—substitution和Jackknife检验,总体预测精度分别为97．33％和75、11％。实验结果表明蛋白质序列的分组重量编码对于细胞凋亡蛋白的定位研究是一种有效的特征提取方法。     

基于氨基酸和二肽组成的蛋白质四级结构分类研究

基于最近邻居算法,从蛋白质一级序列出发,利用蛋白质序列氨基酸组成、二肤组成以及混合组成方法对蛋白质单聚体、二聚体、三聚体、四聚体、五聚体、六聚体和八聚体进行分类研究。结果表明:采用二肽组成编码方法的预洲效果最好,Jackknife检验和独立测试集检验的总体预测精度分别达到90.83%和95.48%,比相同数据集上基于伪氨基酸组成和组分耦合预测的方法提高了12和15个百分点;特别是对于五聚体蛋白,预测精度分别提高了90和50个百分点;说明二肽组成对于蛋白质四级结构分类研究是一种非常有效的特征提取方法。     

Using the concept of Chou's pseudo amino acid composition to predict apoptosis proteins subcellular location: an approach by approximate entropy

The function of protein is closely correlated with it subcellular location. Prediction of subcellular location of apoptosis proteins is an important research area in post-genetic era because the knowledge of apoptosis proteins is useful to understand the mechanism of programmed cell death. Compared with the conventional amino acid composition (AAC), the Pseudo Amino Acid composition (PseAA) as originally introduced by Chou can incorporate much more information of a protein sequence so as to remarkably enhance the power of using a discrete model to predict various attributes of a protein. In this study, a novel approach is presented to predict apoptosis protein solely from sequence based on the concept of Chou's PseAA composition. The concept of approximate entropy (ApEn), which is a parameter denoting complexity of time series, is used to construct PseAA composition as additional features. Fuzzy K-nearest neighbor (FKNN) classifier is selected as prediction engine. Particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm is adopted for optimizing the weight factors which are important in PseAA composition. Two datasets are used to validate the performance of the proposed approach, which incorporate six subcellular location and four subcellular locations, respectively. The results obtained by jackknife test are quite encouraging. It indicates that the ApEn of protein sequence could represent effectively the information of apoptosis proteins subcellular locations. It can at least play a complimentary role to many of the existing methods, and might become potentially useful tool for protein function prediction. The software in Matlab is available freely by contacting the corresponding author.     

Prediction of protein subcellular location using a combined feature of sequence

To understand the structure and function of a protein, an important task is to know where it occurs in the cell. Thus, a computational method for properly predicting the subcellular location of proteins would be significant in interpreting the original data produced by the large-scale genome sequencing projects. The present work tries to explore an effective method for extracting features from protein primary sequence and find a novel measurement of similarity among proteins for classifying a protein to its proper subcellular location. We considered four locations in eukaryotic cells and three locations in prokaryotic cells, which have been investigated by several groups in the past. A combined feature of primary sequence defined as a 430D (dimensional) vector was utilized to represent a protein, including 20 amino acid compositions, 400 dipeptide compositions and 10 physicochemical properties. To evaluate the prediction performance of this encoding scheme, a jackknife test based on nearest neighbor algorithm was employed. The prediction accuracies for cytoplasmic, extracellular, mitochondrial, and nuclear proteins in the former dataset were 86.3%, 89.2%, 73.5% and 89.4%, respectively, and the total prediction accuracy reached 86.3%. As for the prediction accuracies of cytoplasmic, extracellular, and periplasmic proteins in the latter dataset, the prediction accuracies were 97.4%, 86.0%, and 79.7, respectively, and the total prediction accuracy of 92.5% was achieved. The results indicate that this method outperforms some existing approaches based on amino acid composition or amino acid composition and dipeptide composition.     

Predicting protein subcellular location using Chou's pseudo amino acid composition and improved hybrid approach

The location of a protein in a cell is closely correlated with its biological function. Based on the concept that the protein subcellular location is mainly determined by its amino acid and pseudo amino acid composition (PseAA), a new algorithm of increment of diversity combined with support vector machine is proposed to predict the protein subcellular location. The subcellular locations of plant and non-plant proteins are investigated by our method. The overall prediction accuracies in jackknife test are 88.3% for the eukaryotic plant proteins and 92.4% for the eukaryotic non-plant proteins, respectively. In order to estimate the effect of the sequence identity on predictive result, the proteins with sequence identity 相似文献   

A graphic representation of protein sequence and predicting the subcellular locations of prokaryotic proteins

Zp curve, a three-dimensional space curve representation of protein primary sequence based on the hydrophobicity and charged properties of amino acid residues along the primary sequence is suggested. Relying on the Zp parameters extracted from the three components of the Zp curve and the Bayes discriminant algorithm, the subcellular locations of prokaryotic proteins were predicted. Consequently, an accuracy of 81.5% in the cross-validation test has been achieved using 13 parameters extracted from the curve for the database of 997 prokaryotic proteins. The result is slightly better than that of using the neural network method (80.9%) based on the amino acid composition for the same database. By jointing the amino acid composition and the Zp parameters, the overall predictive accuracy 89.6% can be achieved. It is about 3% higher than that of the Bayes discriminant algorithm based merely on the amino acid composition for the same database. The prediction is also performed with a larger dataset derived from the version 39 SWISS-PROT databank and two datasets with different sequence similarity. Even for the dataset of non-sequence similarity, the improvement can be of 4.4% in the cross-validation test. The results indicate that the Zp parameters are effective in representing the information within a protein primary sequence. The method of extracting information from the primary structure may be useful for other areas of protein studies.     

Prediction of protein subcellular locations by support vector machines using compositions of amino acids and amino acid pairs

MOTIVATION: The subcellular location of a protein is closely correlated to its function. Thus, computational prediction of subcellular locations from the amino acid sequence information would help annotation and functional prediction of protein coding genes in complete genomes. We have developed a method based on support vector machines (SVMs). RESULTS: We considered 12 subcellular locations in eukaryotic cells: chloroplast, cytoplasm, cytoskeleton, endoplasmic reticulum, extracellular medium, Golgi apparatus, lysosome, mitochondrion, nucleus, peroxisome, plasma membrane, and vacuole. We constructed a data set of proteins with known locations from the SWISS-PROT database. A set of SVMs was trained to predict the subcellular location of a given protein based on its amino acid, amino acid pair, and gapped amino acid pair compositions. The predictors based on these different compositions were then combined using a voting scheme. Results obtained through 5-fold cross-validation tests showed an improvement in prediction accuracy over the algorithm based on the amino acid composition only. This prediction method is available via the Internet.     

Prediction of protein subcellular multi-localization based on the general form of Chou's pseudo amino acid composition

Many proteins bear multi-locational characteristics, and this phenomenon is closely related to biological function. However, most of the existing methods can only deal with single-location proteins. Therefore, an automatic and reliable ensemble classifier for protein subcellular multi-localization is needed. We propose a new ensemble classifier combining the KNN (K-nearest neighbour) and SVM (support vector machine) algorithms to predict the subcellular localization of eukaryotic, Gram-negative bacterial and viral proteins based on the general form of Chou's pseudo amino acid composition, i.e., GO (gene ontology) annotations, dipeptide composition and AmPseAAC (Amphiphilic pseudo amino acid composition). This ensemble classifier was developed by fusing many basic individual classifiers through a voting system. The overall prediction accuracies obtained by the KNN-SVM ensemble classifier are 95.22, 93.47 and 80.72% for the eukaryotic, Gram-negative bacterial and viral proteins, respectively. Our prediction accuracies are significantly higher than those by previous methods and reveal that our strategy better predicts subcellular locations of multi-location proteins.     

Using a novel AdaBoost algorithm and Chou's Pseudo amino acid composition for predicting protein subcellular localization

For a protein, an important characteristic is its location or compartment in a cell. This is because a protein has to be located in its proper position in a cell to perform its biological functions. Therefore, predicting protein subcellular location is an important and challenging task in current molecular and cellular biology. In this paper, based on AdaBoost.ME algorithm and Chou's PseAAC (pseudo amino acid composition), a new computational method was developed to identify protein subcellular location. AdaBoost.ME is an improved version of AdaBoost algorithm that can directly extend the original AdaBoost algorithm to deal with multi-class cases without the need to reduce it to multiple two-class problems. In some previous studies the conventional amino acid composition was applied to represent protein samples. In order to take into account the sequence order effects, in this study we use Chou's PseAAC to represent protein samples. To demonstrate that AdaBoost.ME is a robust and efficient model in predicting protein subcellular locations, the same protein dataset used by Cedano et al. (Journal of Molecular Biology, 1997, 266: 594-600) is adopted in this paper. It can be seen from the computed results that the accuracy achieved by our method is better than those by the methods developed by the previous investigators.     

基于离散增量结合支持向量机方法的凋亡蛋白亚细胞位置预测

根据凋亡蛋白的亚细胞位置主要决定于它的氨基酸序列这一观点,基于局部氨基酸序列的n肽组分和序列的亲疏水性分布信息,采用离散增量结合支持向量机(ID_SVM)算法,对六类细胞凋亡蛋白的亚细胞位置进行预测。结果表明,在Re-substitution检验和Jackknife检验下,ID_SVM算法的总体预测成功率分别达到了94.6%和84.2%;在5-fold检验和10-fold检验下,其总体预测成功率也都达到了83%以上。通过比较ID和ID_SVM两种方法的预测能力发现,结合了支持向量机的离散增量算法能够改进预测成功率,结果表明ID_SVM是预测凋亡蛋白亚细胞位置的一种很有效的方法。     

Prediction of protein subcellular locations using a new measure of information discrepancy

Given a raw protein sequence, knowing its subcellular location is an important step toward understanding its function and designing further experiments. A novel method is proposed for the prediction of protein subcellular locations from sequences. For four categories of eukaryotic proteins the overall predictive accuracy is 82.0%, 2.6% higher than that by using SVM approach. For three subcellular locations of prokaryotic proteins, an overall accuracy of 89.9% is obtained. In accordance with the architecture of cells, a hierarchical prediction approach is designed. Based on amino acid composition extracellular proteins and intracellular proteins can be identified with accuracy of 97%.