Predicting essential proteins based on subcellular localization, orthology and PPI networks.
BMC Bioinformatics
; 17 Suppl 8: 279, 2016 Aug 31.
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ABSTRACT
BACKGROUND:
Essential proteins play an indispensable role in the cellular survival and development. There have been a series of biological experimental methods for finding essential proteins; however they are time-consuming, expensive and inefficient. In order to overcome the shortcomings of biological experimental methods, many computational methods have been proposed to predict essential proteins. The computational methods can be roughly divided into two categories, the topology-based methods and the sequence-based ones. The former use the topological features of protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks while the latter use the sequence features of proteins to predict essential proteins. Nevertheless, it is still challenging to improve the prediction accuracy of the computational methods.RESULTS:
Comparing with nonessential proteins, essential proteins appear more frequently in certain subcellular locations and their evolution more conservative. By integrating the information of subcellular localization, orthologous proteins and PPI networks, we propose a novel essential protein prediction method, named SON, in this study. The experimental results on S.cerevisiae data show that the prediction accuracy of SON clearly exceeds that of nine competingmethods:
DC, BC, IC, CC, SC, EC, NC, PeC and ION.CONCLUSIONS:
We demonstrate that, by integrating the information of subcellular localization, orthologous proteins with PPI networks, the accuracy of predicting essential proteins can be improved. Our proposed method SON is effective for predicting essential proteins.Key words
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01-internacional
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Subcellular Fractions
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Proteins
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Sequence Homology, Amino Acid
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Protein Interaction Mapping
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Protein Interaction Maps
Type of study:
Prognostic_studies
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Risk_factors_studies
Language:
En
Journal:
BMC Bioinformatics
Journal subject:
INFORMATICA MEDICA
Year:
2016
Type:
Article