Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on November 27, 2006
Nucleic Acids Research 2006 34(22):6450-6460; doi:10.1093/nar/gkl819
| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nucleic Acids Research, 2006, Vol. 34, No. 22 6450-6460
© 2006 The Author(s).
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/uk/) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Computational Biology |
Amino acid residue doublet propensity in the protein–RNA interface and its application to RNA interface prediction
1 Quantum Bioinformatics Team, Center for Computational Science and Engineering, Japan Atomic Energy Agency Kizu-cho, Souraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan 2 Research Unit for Quantum Beam Life Science Initiative, Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency Kizu-cho, Souraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan 3 CREST, JST, Japan Atomic Energy Agency Kizu-cho, Souraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan 4 Computational Biology Group, Quantum Beam Science Directorate, Japan Atomic Energy Agency Kizu-cho, Souraku-gun, Kyoto 619-0215, Japan 5 Bioinformatics Unit, Nara Institute of Science and Technology Takayama-cho, Ikoma-shi, Nara 630-0196, Japan
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +81 774 71 3462; Fax: +81 774 71 3460; Email: yura.kei{at}jaea.go.jp
Received July 11, 2006. Revised October 5, 2006. Accepted October 5, 2006.
Protein–RNA interactions play essential roles in a number of regulatory mechanisms for gene expression such as RNA splicing, transport, translation and post-transcriptional control. As the number of available protein–RNA complex 3D structures has increased, it is now possible to statistically examine protein–RNA interactions based on 3D structures. We performed computational analyses of 86 representative protein–RNA complexes retrieved from the Protein Data Bank. Interface residue propensity, a measure of the relative importance of different amino acid residues in the RNA interface, was calculated for each amino acid residue type (residue singlet interface propensity). In addition to the residue singlet propensity, we introduce a new residue-based propensity, which gives a measure of residue pairing preferences in the RNA interface of a protein (residue doublet interface propensity). The residue doublet interface propensity contains much more information than the sum of two singlet propensities alone. The prediction of the RNA interface using the two types of propensities plus a position-specific multiple sequence profile can achieve a specificity of about 80%. The prediction method was then applied to the 3D structure of two mRNA export factors, TAP (Mex67) and UAP56 (Sub2). The prediction enables us to point out candidate RNA interfaces, part of which are consistent with previous experimental studies and may contribute to elucidation of atomic mechanisms of mRNA export.
Present address: Oanh T. P. Kim, Faculty of Science, Nara Women's University, Kitauoyahigashi-machi, Nara 630-8506, Japan
CiteULike 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us What's this?
This article has been cited by other articles:
|
|
 |
|
  K. Yura, Y. Miyata, T. Arikawa, M. Higuchi, and M. Sugita Characteristics and Prediction of RNA Editing Sites in Transcripts of the Moss Takakia lepidozioides Chloroplast DNA Res, July 23, 2008; (2008) dsn016v1. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
 |
|
 R. P. Bahadur, M. Zacharias, and J. Janin Dissecting protein-RNA recognition sites Nucleic Acids Res., May 1, 2008; 36(8): 2705 - 2716. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
Y. C. Chen and C. Lim Predicting RNA-binding sites from the protein structure based on electrostatics, evolution and geometry Nucleic Acids Res., March 1, 2008; 36(5): e29 - e29. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|
|
|
|
|
M. Terribilini, J. D. Sander, J.-H. Lee, P. Zaback, R. L. Jernigan, V. Honavar, and D. Dobbs RNABindR: a server for analyzing and predicting RNA-binding sites in proteins Nucleic Acids Res., July 13, 2007; 35(suppl_2): W578 - W584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]
|
|