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Do aligned sequences share the same fold?

R A Abagyan1, S Batalov

  • 1Skirball Institute of Biomolecular Medicine, Biochemistry Department, NYU Medical Center, NY 10016, USA.

Journal of Molecular Biology
|November 21, 1997
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Protein sequence comparison is key for fold recognition. This study found alignment scores, not just sequence identity, are crucial for determining structural relatedness, especially in the "twilight zone".

Area of Science:

  • Bioinformatics
  • Structural Biology
  • Computational Biology

Background:

  • Sequence comparison is vital for assessing protein structural similarity.
  • Accurate protein fold recognition is essential for understanding protein function and evolution.
  • The
  • twilight zone
  • presents challenges in distinguishing structurally related proteins based solely on sequence identity or similarity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a sensitive, sequence-based method for protein fold recognition.
  • To identify optimal parameters for sequence alignment to accurately predict structural relatedness.
  • To evaluate the effectiveness of different substitution matrices and gap penalties for fold recognition.

Main Methods:

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  • Performed exhaustive global sequence alignments of protein domains with known 3D folds.
  • Derived analytical functions to calculate the probability of structural significance for sequence alignments.
  • Benchmarked eight substitution matrices against eight gap penalty sets using a fold recognition test set.

Main Results:

  • Alignment scores are superior to sequence identity and similarity for detecting structural relatedness, particularly in the challenging
  • twilight zone
  • of sequence similarity.
  • Gonnet and Blosum50 matrices with specific normalized gap penalties (2.4/0.15 and 2.0/0.15) demonstrated the best performance.
  • Positive matrices were found to be the least effective.

Conclusions:

  • The developed analytical functions and parameters enhance protein fold recognition capabilities.
  • This sequence-based approach offers a robust method for predicting structural relationships between proteins.
  • The findings provide valuable insights for optimizing sequence alignment strategies in bioinformatics.