Prediction of zinc-binding sites in proteins from sequence. |
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Authors: | Nanjiang Shu Tuping Zhou Sven Hovm?ller |
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Institution: | Structural Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden. |
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Abstract: | MOTIVATION: Motivated by the abundance, importance and unique functionality of zinc, both biologically and physiologically, we have developed an improved method for the prediction of zinc-binding sites in proteins from their amino acid sequences. RESULTS: By combining support vector machine (SVM) and homology-based predictions, our method predicts zinc-binding Cys, His, Asp and Glu with 75% precision (86% for Cys and His only) at 50% recall according to a 5-fold cross-validation on a non-redundant set of protein chains from the Protein Data Bank (PDB) (2727 chains, 235 of which bind zinc). Consequently, our method predicts zinc-binding Cys and His with 10% higher precision at different recall levels compared to a recently published method when tested on the same dataset. AVAILABILITY: The program is available for download at www.fos.su.se/~nanjiang/zincpred/download/ |
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