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Simplicial edge representation of protein structures and alpha contact potential with confidence measure
Authors:Li Xiang  Hu Changyu  Liang Jie
Institution:Department of Bioengineering, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7052, USA.
Abstract:Protein representation and potential function are two important ingredients for studying protein folding, equilibrium thermodynamics, and sequence design. We introduce a novel geometric representation of protein contact interactions using the edge simplices from the alpha shape of the protein structure. This representation can eliminate implausible neighbors that are not in physical contact, and can avoid spurious contact between two residues when a third residue is between them. We developed statistical alpha contact potential using an odds-ratio model. A studentized bootstrap method was then introduced to assess the 95% confidence intervals for each of the 210 propensity parameters. We found, with confidence, that there is significant long-range propensity (>30 residues apart) for hydrophobic interactions. We tested alpha contact potential for native structure discrimination using several sets of decoy structures, and found that it often performs comparably with atom-based potentials requiring many more parameters. We also show that accurate geometric representation is important, and that alpha contact potential has better performance than potential defined by cutoff distance between geometric centers of side chains. Hierarchical clustering of alpha contact potentials reveals natural grouping of residues. To explore the relationship between shape and physicochemical representations, we tested the minimum alphabet size necessary for native structure discrimination. We found that there is no significant difference in performance of discrimination when alphabet size varies from 7 to 20, if geometry is represented accurately by alpha simplicial edges. This result suggests that the geometry of packing plays an important role, but the specific residue types are often interchangeable.
Keywords:simplicial edge  alpha contact  alpha shape  protein potential function  bootstrap
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