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Brief Bioinform ; 23(5)2022 09 20.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35914952

RESUMEN

Low complexity regions are fragments of protein sequences composed of only a few types of amino acids. These regions frequently occur in proteins and can play an important role in their functions. However, scientists are mainly focused on regions characterized by high diversity of amino acid composition. Similarity between regions of protein sequences frequently reflect functional similarity between them. In this article, we discuss strengths and weaknesses of the similarity analysis of low complexity regions using BLAST, HHblits and CD-HIT. These methods are considered to be the gold standard in protein similarity analysis and were designed for comparison of high complexity regions. However, we lack specialized methods that could be used to compare the similarity of low complexity regions. Therefore, we investigated the existing methods in order to understand how they can be applied to compare such regions. Our results are supported by exploratory study, discussion of amino acid composition and biological roles of selected examples. We show that existing methods need improvements to efficiently search for similar low complexity regions. We suggest features that have to be re-designed specifically for comparing low complexity regions: scoring matrix, multiple sequence alignment, e-value, local alignment and clustering based on a set of representative sequences. Results of this analysis can either be used to improve existing methods or to create new methods for the similarity analysis of low complexity regions.


Asunto(s)
Aminoácidos , Proteínas , Algoritmos , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Aminoácidos/genética , Análisis por Conglomerados , Proteínas/química , Proteínas/genética , Alineación de Secuencia , Análisis de Secuencia de Proteína/métodos
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Nucleic Acids Res ; 48(W1): W77-W84, 2020 07 02.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32421769

RESUMEN

Low complexity regions (LCRs) in protein sequences are characterized by a less diverse amino acid composition compared to typically observed sequence diversity. Recent studies have shown that LCRs may co-occur with intrinsically disordered regions, are highly conserved in many organisms, and often play important roles in protein functions and in diseases. In previous decades, several methods have been developed to identify regions with LCRs or amino acid bias, but most of them as stand-alone applications and currently there is no web-based tool which allows users to explore LCRs in protein sequences with additional functional annotations. We aim to fill this gap by providing PlaToLoCo - PLAtform of TOols for LOw COmplexity-a meta-server that integrates and collects the output of five different state-of-the-art tools for discovering LCRs and provides functional annotations such as domain detection, transmembrane segment prediction, and calculation of amino acid frequencies. In addition, the union or intersection of the results of the search on a query sequence can be obtained. By developing the PlaToLoCo meta-server, we provide the community with a fast and easily accessible tool for the analysis of LCRs with additional information included to aid the interpretation of the results. The PlaToLoCo platform is available at: http://platoloco.aei.polsl.pl/.


Asunto(s)
Proteínas/química , Programas Informáticos , Aminoácidos/análisis , Gráficos por Computador , Humanos , Proteínas de la Membrana/química , Anotación de Secuencia Molecular , Dominios Proteicos , Análisis de Secuencia de Proteína
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BMC Bioinformatics ; 22(1): 182, 2021 Apr 08.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-33832440

RESUMEN

BACKGROUND: The rapid spread of the COVID-19 demands immediate response from the scientific communities. Appropriate countermeasures mean thoughtful and educated choice of viral targets (epitopes). There are several articles that discuss such choices in the SARS-CoV-2 proteome, other focus on phylogenetic traits and history of the Coronaviridae genome/proteome. However none consider viral protein low complexity regions (LCRs). Recently we created the first methods that are able to compare such fragments. RESULTS: We show that five low complexity regions (LCRs) in three proteins (nsp3, S and N) encoded by the SARS-CoV-2 genome are highly similar to regions from human proteome. As many as 21 predicted T-cell epitopes and 27 predicted B-cell epitopes overlap with the five SARS-CoV-2 LCRs similar to human proteins. Interestingly, replication proteins encoded in the central part of viral RNA are devoid of LCRs. CONCLUSIONS: Similarity of SARS-CoV-2 LCRs to human proteins may have implications on the ability of the virus to counteract immune defenses. The vaccine targeted LCRs may potentially be ineffective or alternatively lead to autoimmune diseases development. These findings are crucial to the process of selection of new epitopes for drugs or vaccines which should omit such regions.


Asunto(s)
Proteoma , SARS-CoV-2/genética , Homología de Secuencia , Vacunas contra la COVID-19 , Proteínas de la Nucleocápside de Coronavirus/inmunología , Epítopos de Linfocito B/inmunología , Epítopos de Linfocito T/inmunología , Humanos , Fosfoproteínas/inmunología , Filogenia , ARN Polimerasa Dependiente del ARN/inmunología , Factores de Riesgo , Glicoproteína de la Espiga del Coronavirus/inmunología , Proteínas no Estructurales Virales/inmunología
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J Am Chem Soc ; 141(42): 16817-16828, 2019 10 23.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31550880

RESUMEN

Electrostatic interactions play important roles in the functional mechanisms exploited by intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs). The atomic resolution description of long-range and local structural propensities that can both be crucial for the function of highly charged IDPs presents significant experimental challenges. Here, we investigate the conformational behavior of the δ subunit of RNA polymerase from Bacillus subtilis whose unfolded domain is highly charged, with 7 positively charged amino acids followed by 51 acidic amino acids. Using a specifically designed analytical strategy, we identify transient contacts between the two regions using a combination of NMR paramagnetic relaxation enhancements, residual dipolar couplings (RDCs), chemical shifts, and small-angle scattering. This strategy allows the resolution of long-range and local ensemble averaged structural contributions to the experimental RDCs, and reveals that the negatively charged segment folds back onto the positively charged strand, compacting the conformational sampling of the protein while remaining highly flexible in solution. Mutation of the positively charged region abrogates the long-range contact, leaving the disordered domain in an extended conformation, possibly due to local repulsion of like-charges along the chain. Remarkably, in vitro studies show that this mutation also has a significant effect on transcription activity, and results in diminished cell fitness of the mutated bacteria in vivo. This study highlights the importance of accurately describing electrostatic interactions for understanding the functional mechanisms of IDPs.


Asunto(s)
Bacillus subtilis/enzimología , ARN Polimerasas Dirigidas por ADN/química , ARN Polimerasas Dirigidas por ADN/metabolismo , Subunidades de Proteína/química , Subunidades de Proteína/metabolismo , Electricidad Estática , Secuencia de Aminoácidos , Modelos Moleculares , Conformación Proteica
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J Inorg Biochem ; 248: 112364, 2023 11.
Artículo en Inglés | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-37689037

RESUMEN

Hepcidin is an iron regulatory hormone that does not bind iron directly. Instead, its mature 25-peptide form (H25) contains a binding site for other metals, the so-called ATCUN/NTS (amino-terminal Cu/Ni binding site). The Cu(II)-hepcidin complex was previously studied, but due to poor solubility and difficult handling of the peptide the definitive account on the binding equilibrium was not obtained reliably. In this study we performed a series of fluorescence competition experiments between H25 and its model peptides containing the same ATCUN/NTS site and determined the Cu(II) conditional binding constant of the CuH25 complex at pH 7.4, CK7.4 = 4 ± 2 × 1014 M-1. This complex was found to be very inert in exchange reactions and poorly reactive in the ascorbate consumption test. The consequences of these findings for the putative role of Cu(II) interactions with H25 are discussed.


Asunto(s)
Hepcidinas , Hierro , Humanos , Sitios de Unión , Fluorescencia , Dominios Proteicos
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