Functional restraints on the patterns of amino acid substitutions: Application to sequence-structure homology recognition

被引:14
作者
Chelliah, V [1 ]
Blundell, T [1 ]
Mizuguchi, K [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Cambridge, Dept Biochem, Cambridge CB2 1GA, England
关键词
structural restraints; functional site; homology recognition; FUGUE; substitution tables;
D O I
10.1002/prot.20617
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Amino acid residues that are involved in functional interactions in proteins have strong evolutionary pressure to remain unchanged and consequently their substitution patterns are different from those that are noninteracting. To characterize and quantify the differences between amino acid substitution patterns due to structural restraints and those under functional restraints, we have made a comparative analysis of families of homologous proteins. Residues classified as having the same amino acid type, secondary structure, accessibility, and side-chain hydrogen bonds are shown to be better conserved if they are close to the active site. We have focused on enzyme families for this analysis since they have functional sites that are easily defined by their catalytic residues. We have derived new sets of environment-specific substitution tables, which we term function-dependent environment-specific substitution tables, where amino acid residues are classified according to their distance from the functional sites. The residues that are within a distance of 9 A from the active site have distinct amino acid substitution patterns when compared to the other sites. The function-dependent environment-specific substitution tables have been tested using the sequence-structure homology recognition program FUGUE and the results compared with the recognition performance obtained using the standard environment-specific substitution tables. Significant improvements are obtained in both recognition performance and alignment accuracy using the function-dependent environment-specific substitution tables (P-value = 0.02, according to the Wilcoxon signed rank test for alignment accuracy). The alignments near the active site are greatly improved with pronounced improvements at lower percentage identities (less than 30%).
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页码:722 / 731
页数:10
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