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HybridDBRpred: improved sequence-based prediction of DNA-binding amino acids using annotations from structured
Jian Zhang1, Sushmita Basu2, Lukasz Kurgan2
1School of Computer and Information Technology, Xinyang Normal University, Xinyang 464000, PR China.
Nucleic Acids Research
|December 4, 2023
Summary
Current DNA-binding residue predictors perform poorly on intrinsically disordered proteins. A new meta-model, hybridDBRpred, combines top predictors to accurately identify DNA-binding residues across both structured and disordered proteins.
Area of Science:
- Computational Biology
- Bioinformatics
- Protein Science
Background:
- Predicting DNA-binding residues (DBRs) is crucial for understanding protein function.
- Existing DBR predictors are trained on either structured or intrinsically disordered protein data, leading to performance gaps.
Purpose of the Study:
- To empirically analyze the performance of current DBR predictors across different protein types.
- To develop an improved meta-model for accurate DBR prediction in both structured and disordered proteins.
Main Methods:
- Empirical performance analysis of ten existing DBR predictors.
- Development of a deep transformer network-based meta-model (hybridDBRpred).
- Validation of hybridDBRpred against existing tools and baseline meta-predictors.
Main Results:
- Structure-trained predictors excel on structured proteins but falter on disordered ones, and vice versa.
- No single existing predictor accurately identifies DBRs across both protein types.
- hybridDBRpred demonstrates superior accuracy and reduced cross-predictions compared to individual predictors and baseline meta-models.
Conclusions:
- Existing DBR predictors have limitations when applied to diverse protein structures.
- hybridDBRpred offers a robust solution for accurate DBR identification across structured and intrinsically disordered proteins.
- The hybridDBRpred web server and source code are publicly available for research use.
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