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Computational Prediction of Amino Acid Preferences of Potentially Multispecific Peptide-Binding Domains Involved in Protein-Protein Interactions
Published on: January 26, 2024
Predicting the activity of antimicrobial peptides with amino acid topological information
1School of Pharmacy and Bioengineering, Chongqing University of Technology, Chongqing, 400054, PR China.
Abstract:
In this paper, VSTPV, was recruited as a novel set of structural and topological descriptors derived from principal component analysis (PCA) on 85 structural and topological variables of 166 coded and non-coded amino acids. By using partial least squares (PLS), we applied VSTPV for the study of quantitative structure-activity models (QSARs) studies on two peptide panels as 101 synthetic cationic Antimicrobial polypeptides (CAMELs), and 28 bovine lactoferricin- (17 � 31)-pentadecapeptides (LFB). The results of QSARs models were superior to that of the earlier studies, with squared correlative coefficient R2 and cross-validated Q2 of 0.783, 0.656; and 0.864, 0.793, respectively. So, VSTPV descriptors were confirmed to be competent to extract information on 85 structural variables and to relate with biological activities.
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