Robust and accurate prediction of protein–protein interactions by exploiting evolutionary information

Abstract Various biochemical functions of organisms are performed by protein–protein interactions (PPIs). Therefore, recognition of protein–protein interactions is very important for understanding most life activities, such as DNA replication and transcription, protein synthesis and secretion, signa...

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Autores principales: Yang Li, Zheng Wang, Li-Ping Li, Zhu-Hong You, Wen-Zhun Huang, Xin-Ke Zhan, Yan-Bin Wang
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Publicado: Nature Portfolio 2021
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Sumario:Abstract Various biochemical functions of organisms are performed by protein–protein interactions (PPIs). Therefore, recognition of protein–protein interactions is very important for understanding most life activities, such as DNA replication and transcription, protein synthesis and secretion, signal transduction and metabolism. Although high-throughput technology makes it possible to generate large-scale PPIs data, it requires expensive cost of both time and labor, and leave a risk of high false positive rate. In order to formulate a more ingenious solution, biology community is looking for computational methods to quickly and efficiently discover massive protein interaction data. In this paper, we propose a computational method for predicting PPIs based on a fresh idea of combining orthogonal locality preserving projections (OLPP) and rotation forest (RoF) models, using protein sequence information. Specifically, the protein sequence is first converted into position-specific scoring matrices (PSSMs) containing protein evolutionary information by using the Position-Specific Iterated Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (PSI-BLAST). Then we characterize a protein as a fixed length feature vector by applying OLPP to PSSMs. Finally, we train an RoF classifier for the purpose of identifying non-interacting and interacting protein pairs. The proposed method yielded a significantly better results than existing methods, with 90.07% and 96.09% prediction accuracy on Yeast and Human datasets. Our experiment show the proposed method can serve as a useful tool to accelerate the process of solving key problems in proteomics.